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Cover of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Antonio Damasio · 1995
Mentioned 6 times across 6 podcasts · 2023–2026
Mention timeline6 mentions
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Where it's mentioned
2026
How To Make Better Decisions (with way less uncertainty) - Joe Hudson - #1171
Modern Wisdom · Nov 2026
“So if you read a book, uh Called Descartes air. twenty, twenty twelve. Um He wrote that the emotional Center of the brain is what makes decisions”
Why Consciousness Needs a Body
The Michael Shermer Show · Oct 2026
“including, I think I've read most of these, Descartes Error emotion, reason, and the human brain”
How to Stop Sabotaging Your Own Life With Joe Hudson
The Rich Roll Podcast · May 2026
“And there's a great book on this called Descartes' error, and you can look it up”
Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2026
“I mean, in a way, this is the lesson of uh Antonio Damasio's uh first book in 1994, Descartes' error, it was called”
Michael Pollan on the Mystery of Consciousness
The Next Big Idea · Feb 2026
“Damasio's first book. or first well known book, Descartes' error, he also shows that people incapable of feelings, who are kind of emotionally stunted, make worse decisions”
2023
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The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2023
“Damasio's Descartes error”