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Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Body Brain Changes Enough External Feelings Interestingly Maps Purely Reaction Result Sometimes Stimuli

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Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Based Body Certain Changes Consciousness Feelings How Like Much Our Reacting Representation Self-Image Stimuli Unthinkable Without Would

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Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Articles Because Body Books Brain Brains Develop Expedient First First Place Life Managing Music Place Play Play Music Plays Science Way Why Write

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To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

~Antonio Damasio

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There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Body Brain Mind Thing

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When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: About Behaviors Body Brain Changes Collection Emotion Face Look Observe Person Posture Produced Really Skin Talk You

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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Also Body Changes Closed Down Emotion Experience Expression Facial Guts Heart Sadness Slow Will You Your Your Body

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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: About Apprehension Beings Body Human Human Beings Mean Proportion Proportions Related Scale Things Think Us Way I Think

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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: About Absolute Against Architecture Body Great Great Thing Language Like Mass Now Place Sculpture Something Space Stood Thing Think Time Try Use Used Way

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I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

~Antony Gormley

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