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The Strange Order of Things

Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

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The Strange Order of Things

By: Antonio Damasio
Narrated by: Steve West, Antonio Damasio
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Summary

 From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
 
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life.In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it. Biological Sciences Biology Customs & Traditions Science Social Sciences Sociology Nervous System Physiology
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Promising start which sets out the thesis of the book well. Descriptions of internal mental processes gets clinical very quickly. Reads more like a research paper than a book. Gave up at chapter 10. Would be improved by the use of more real life examples to embed the 'clinical' descriptions.
Have revisited this book (1 year on) and managed to get through to the end. It was still not an easy read but worth staying with it. I have updated my rating from 1 to 4 stars.

Clinical, difficult to access. Needs more examples

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loved it, especially the first half. As with all science books feel a need to go over the material again.

Great listen

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