Antonio Damasio Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

  Antonio Damasio

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

  Antonio Damasio

  Perception, Hearing, Purpose

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

  Antonio Damasio

  People, Interesting, Political

  Interviewwith David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

  Antonio Damasio

  Opportunity, Purpose, Body

  "Big Think Interview With Antonio Damasio". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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