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Why are we as helpless, or more so, than our ancestors were in facing the chaos that interferes with happiness? There are at least two good explanations for this failure. In the first place, the kind of knowledge—or wisdom—one needs for emancipating consciousness is not cumulative. It cannot be condensed into a formula; it cannot be memorized and t
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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Strange order of things - Antonio Damasio
Homeostasis ensures that life is regulated within a range that is not just compatible with survival but also conducive to flourishing, to a projection of life into the future of an organism or species — we can think of feelings as mental deputies of homeostasis
Nervous systems make minds not by themselves bu... See more
Homeostasis ensures that life is regulated within a range that is not just compatible with survival but also conducive to flourishing, to a projection of life into the future of an organism or species — we can think of feelings as mental deputies of homeostasis
Nervous systems make minds not by themselves bu... See more