Antonio Damasio

Spinoza understood that mind and body are one.

Reason without emotion is a compass without a needle.

The feeling of what happens is the core of consciousness.

Homeostasis is the foundation of life and mind.

The autobiographical self emerges from memory and emotion.

Emotions are indispensable for rationality.

Consciousness is not a spotlight but a living landscape.

The body is the mind's indispensable partner.

Images are the language of thought.

Somatic markers are the gut feelings that guide decisions.

The extended consciousness includes the past and future.

Joy and sorrow are the colors of human experience.

The brain maps the body's states to create feelings.

Descartes was wrong; mind and body are intertwined.

Core consciousness is the feeling of me.

Ethics arises from the biology of feeling.

The self is built from the ground up, from biology.

Without emotion, intellect is powerless.

Emotions create the value for actions.

The mind is an extension of the body's concerns.