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and movement disorders. Damasio's books deal with the relationship between emotions and feelings, and what their brain substrates. His 1994 book, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, won the Science et Vie prize, was a finalist for the Los Angela Times Book Award, and is translated in

llow. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1966. After spells at Cornell and Harvard Universities, he returned to Stanford in197O to join the faculty. He was President of SF! from 2005-2009. West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interest

o us, and how we reacted to our experiences. Ideology is complex. Its causes are multifaceted and rarely subject to quantification. The philosopher, Descartes, who famously said, “I think therefore I am” got it backwards. I am—I was, I will be—therefore I think what I think. The ability to think is inborn—a

eachers were asking to sit in on my classes. I always said yes. ?1 New York Times Magazine, September 11, 1966, Victor S. Nevasky, The Yales vs. The Harvards 74 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017161 4.2.12 WC: 191694 I had a goal for every class, and when I think back on it, it was far too ambitious. I had to, with ev

bursts of creativity in art, music, literature and science. A promiscuous brain enabled Bach and Bono, Picasso and Pollock, Shakespeare and Shaw, and Descartes and Darwin. A promiscuous brain enables us to imagine things we have never directly experienced, to create once unimaginable worlds, including blissf

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