From the Mind to the Body, Self Comes to Mind
From the Mind to the Body, Self Comes to Mind The mind emerged from the body through the originations of conscious thoughts in an introspective manner that is accessible to the self. A connection between mind and body eventually developed a proprietor within the thinking mind. The neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio believes that a mind with subjectivity is a conscious mind, otherwise one would not know of his existence, who he is, and what he thinks (Damasio, 2010). At some point in time, the mind developed feelings towards the experience of the connected “me”(Damasio, 2010). The human mind somehow collaborated with the body and began to differentiate between their inner world with subjective experiences, and the objective world “out of there”(Bownds, 1999). Here, I will discuss the mechanisms by which mind emerges from the body according to the neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio and the biologist Deric Bownds. Also, I will discuss the relationship between self and mind. Damasio’s approach to the discussion of the emergence of mind is more elaborated and complex than that of Bownds’. The reason for this being that Bownds’ discusses his ideas from a biological point of view, while Damasio is inclined to his neuropsychological knowledge which is also more updated than Bownds’ material. Based on the information in their discussion, one will be able to conceive the process behind the emergence of mind from the body, and what a better way than starting by understanding the self process. It is crucial to keep in mind that when self comes to mind, that mind becomes self-conscious and aware. The self process is studied from two characteristic points, the self-as-object and the self-as-knower (Damasio, 2010). The self-as-object is the integrative collection of neural processes, based on the representation of the body, that finds expression in an active assemblage of integrated mental processes (Damasio, 2010). This is consider to be the first
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