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Mind beyond the concept of wet computer

Very custom used technological metaphor to talk about the mind as a powerful computer or, more precisely, as the "computer wet." There is much more logical operations and calculation processes information in mind, that mysterious organ into another and fertile emotions. Antonio Damasio, in his new book "And the brain created man " seeks to explain how the brain constructs the mind, that is, how can the brain create emotions, feelings, ideas and self? This knowledge is essential not only for life, but to understand a process as ductile as plastic and dynamic learning.

When we go to understand and promote learning in the classroom or in any other environment, such as virtual pedagogical explanation misses frequently revelations about how the mind for neuroscience. We need the scientific knowledge about the mind to decide on learning processes. Thus, their inclusion in the teacher training curriculum, as in the educational agenda, should be at the same speed with which neuroscientists are new findings.

As a preamble to it here leave some selected lines the interview that makes the country a Damasio, I do by way of personal self-imposed:

can not learn to move you to be sad, happy, compassionate, all that is already in the brain. But the degree to which those emotions are expressed can be educated, learn to modulate.

are very intelligent animals who can not modulate their emotions. Modulation of human emotion is a product of culture. Is a consequence of consciousness.

... One regulates the heartbeat, blood circulation, blood pressure, immunity, digestion, hormonal system ... and we can not interfere. Homeostasis keeps us from being too hot or too cold ... The other is social homeostasis, we can have justice, prosperity, economic, political parties, medicine and technology. Without awareness, we could never have created the social homeostasis. Would not

culture ...

Emotion is a program of actions. The human nervous system, or nervous system, is involved in a series of actions to protect ... Then there is the reading of that action. When you perceive what is happening in your body when you have that emotion, then there is the feeling. Excite is acting. Feeling is perceiving. Two are related. An emotion in general is a feeling, but refers to the action, while the sentiment is the perception of that action.

Human behavior is organized into layers. When we do something, or somebody does something, each layer sends a stronger, some of which we are aware and others not.

is there (in the brain stem) which produced the portraits of the most primal feelings. And whatever happens there is redrawn in the cerebral cortex.

If you destroy the back of the brain stem in humans, destroy consciousness. You go into a vegetative state from which you may never recover. It is a very important part of the brain that produces consciousness. If you miss some parts of the brain, or certain parts of the cerebral cortex as the cortex posterior mean, you're going to lose consciousness. Are very important to build sense of self, of being aware of I autobiographical.

(Einstein) I used to explain that in his theoretical work, when faced with a problem that needed solving, I did in terms of ecstasy to feel if something was right or not. Or if something was beautiful, like an equation.