Book Listing\n\n\uD83D\uDCDA Book Details\n\n--Title: Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious by Antonio Damasio (PB 2012)\n--Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (5 Jan. 2012)\n--Language: English\n--Paperback: 384 pages\n--ISBN-10: 9780099498025\n--ISBN-13: 978-0099498025\n--Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm\n\uD83D\uDCDD Description\n\nWill give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brainhellip;Breathtakingly original Financial Times The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created In Self Comes to Mind world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told .