The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by António R. Damásio

Author:António R. Damásio [Damásio, António R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, Science, Philosophy, Spirituality, Self Help
ISBN: 9780156010757
Goodreads: 125777
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Extended Consciousness >——=> 205 Looking at my work. Don't recognize the page of manuscript I am editing! Flip back and forth, but can't make up my mind what exactly I was doing. (Am clear about the main purpose, not the page I'm on or what I was doing to it.) Looking at my calendar to enter note of this "event," I find names of people I dealt with in last ten days that disturb me: I am not sure who they are. Most entries, though, are dear to me. 11:23—Reading back. I recall starting to write this but can't recognize the top lines! Feel quite clear-headed now, but still slightly confused about implications, if any? of what I just experienced. At this time head feels clear and OK, maybe a bit heavy. (I'm looking for a headache but it's not there.) I don't dare look at my work to see if it makes better sense than ten minutes ago. 11:25—/ read back what I wrote at beginning of the first page: I don't recognize the wording I used! I remember starting to write this, but I'm interested that the beginning of it seems strange. 11:30—Head still clear. No headache. Vision good. Now am trying to recall any relevant circumstances to have on the record. Ordinary morning. Had a cup of coffee at 10 AM. Have been reading and editing a manuscript all morning. Haven't been up from my desk since I got the coffee. Every time I read back some of what I have written, I find statements that puzzle me because I don't remember putting them down. Trivial wordings, but still they puzzle me because I don't recognize them. (Note: all along, I have been sure of what, who, where I am and what I am doing here.) 11:35—I put the radio on to classical music. 11:45—When I first looked at my calendar to write down the note about this episode, I found I was puzzled by a couple of names I could see. In fact, that's why I started to write this whole account. Now, about half an hour later these names still puzzle me(!). I have looked them up on my department phone list and I can identify who they are and what I did with them, but I am still bothered that the names are strange. The note "both reports on infection control are in" for Aug 3 still is not clear. (I don't recall what occasioned it and this is only Aug 6). 11:50—I think I remember doing the reports, but my mind still can't focus on their content. "Infection Control".''

206 c—— The Feeling of What Happens 11:55—I have remembered where to look to confirm who those names are (but still don't focus on the reports I went over for them). I'm going to lunch. 12:05—On my way out, went to rest room then stopped here to reread this and wonder about the significance, besides that it's been a transient episode of some sort. Now out to lunch.

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