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“Damasio here draws a line from bacteria and the first forms of life to human culture, to show how the mechanisms that were present at the dawn of life are the same ones at work in our embodied, feeling states, those that allow ultimately for human culture and for our ‘flourishing’, a term he uses frequently in the book and takes seriously. What he does here is trace the genealogy of ‘minded life, in order to ground firmly in our biology our very capacity to represent the world and ourselves to ourselves. Single-cell organisms are capable of sensing and responding, but they are not minded – yet this is the beginning of mind.” Read more...
Noga Arikha, Philosopher
