Antonio Damasio has a fixed idea.
Passed by Paris this week, he told us about it again.
This polyglot southerner knows France well.
Born in Portugal, he trained in neurology in the United States, however, and has long been a professor at the University of Southern California, where he heads a laboratory of forty researchers.
He decided at the start of his career that he had to look into the mystery of the psychosomatic: the carnal soul, the body that thinks.
Excellent idea, which he has popularized very well over many books.
To read also:
Charles Jaigu: "Nothing is invented without feelings"
The penultimate one was nicely titled
The Strange Order of Things
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He met with unexpected success.
There he weaved a meditation on the whole of living things by emphasizing this strange thing, in fact, that doctors know well: homeostasis.
Living beings obey a single strategy: to last.
Lasting means escaping discomfort or pain, seeking tranquility.
He takes up this subject again in the book he is publishing these days.
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