Table of contents for The feeling of what happens : body and emotion in the making of consciousness / Antonio R. Damasio.

	CONTENTS 

	Part I Introduction								1						
	CHAPTER ONE Stepping into the Light
	stepping into the Light • Absent without Leave • The Problem of
	Consciousness • Approaching Consciousness • Mind, Behavior, and
	Brain • Reflecting on the Neurological and Neuropsychological
	Evidence • A Search for Self • Why We Need Consciousness • The
	Beginning of Consciousness • Coping with Mystery • Hide and Seek
	

	Part II Feeling and Knowing							33
	CHAPTER TWO Emotion and Feeling							35

	One More with Emotion • A Historical Aside • The Brain Knows 
	More than the Conscious Min Reveals • An Aside on Controlling the 
	Uncontrollable • What Are Emotions? • The Biological Function of 
	Emotions • Inducing Emotions • The Mechanics of Emotion • Have No
	Fear • How It All Works • Sharpening the Definition of Emotion: An
	Aside • The Substrate for the Representation of Emotions and Feelings

	CHAPTER THREE Core Consciousness						82

	Studying Consciousness • The Music of Behavior and the External
	Manifestations of Consciousness • Wakefulness • Attention and
	Purposeful Behavior • Studying Consciousness from Its Absence

	CHAPTER FOUR The Hint Half Hinted 						107

	Language and Consciousness • If You Had That Much Money: A
	Comment on Language and Consciousness • Memory and
	Consciousness • Nothing Comes to Mind • David's Consciousness
	Rounding Up Some Facts • The Hint Half Hinted


	PART III A Biology for Knowing							131
	
	CHAPTER FIVE The Organism and the Object					133

	The Body behind the Self • The Need for Stability • The Internal Milieu 
	as a Precursor to the Self • More on the Internal Milieu • 
	Under the Microscope • Managing Life • Why Are Body Representations Well 
	Suited to Signify Stability? • One Body One Person: The Roots of the
	Singularity of Self • The Organism's Invariance and the Impermanence 
	of Permanence • The Roots of Individual Perspective, Ownership, and 
	Agency • The Mapping of Body Signals • The Neural Self • Brain 
	Structures Required to Implement the Proto-Self • Brain Structures 
	Which Are Not Required to Implement the Proto-Self • Something-to-
	Be-Known • A Note on the Disorders of the Something-to-Be-Known 
	It Must Be Me because I'm Here


	CHAPTER SIX The Making of Core Consciousness					168

	The Birth of Consciousness • You Are the Music while the Music 
	Lasts: The Transient Core Self • Beyond the Transient Core Self: The 
	Autobiographical Self • Assembling Core Consciousness • The Need for 
	a Second-Order Neural Pattern • Where Is the Second-Order Neural 
	Pattern? • The Images of Knowing • Consciousness from Perceived 
	Objects and Recalled Past Perceptions • The Nonverbal Nature of Core 
	Consciousness • The Naturalness of Wordless Storytelling • One Last 
	Word on the Homunculus • Taking Stock

	CHAPTER SEVEN Extended Consciousness						195

	Extended Consciousness • Assessing Extended Consciousness
	Disorders of Extended Consciousness • Transient Global Amnesia
	Anosognosia • Asomatognosia • The Transient and the Permanent
	The Neuroanatomical Basis for the Autobiographical Self - The
	Autobiographical Self, Identity, and Personhood • The Autobiographical
	Self and the Unconscious • Nature's Self and Culture's Self • Beyond
	Extended Consciousness

	CHAPTER EIGHT The Neurology of Consciousness					234

	Assessing Statement Number One: Evidence for a Role of Proto-Self
	Structures in Consciousness • It Looks like Sleep • It May Look like
	Coma • Reflecting on the Neural Correlates of Coma and Persistent
	Vegetative State • The Reticular Formation Then and Now • A Quiet
	Mystery • The Anatomy of the Proto-Self in the Perspective of Classical
	Experiments • Reconciling Facts and Interpretations • Assessing
	Statement Number Two: Evidence for a Role of Second-Order
	Structures in Consciousness • Assessing the Other Statements
	Conclusions • A Remarkable Overlap of Functions • A New Context
	for Reticular Formation and Thalamus • A Counterintuitive Fact?


	PART IV Bound to Know								277

	CHAPTER NINE Feeling Feelings							279

	Feeling Feelings • The Substrate for Feelings of Emotion • From 
	Emotion to Conscious Feeling • What Are Feelings For? • A Note on 
	Background Feelings • The Obligate Body-Relatedness of Feeling 
	Emotion and Feeling after Spinal Cord Transection • Evidence from 
	the Section of Vagus Nerve and Spinal Cord • Lessons from Locked-In 
	Syndrome• Learning from Emotion with the Help of the Body

	CHAPTER TEN Using Consciousness							296

	Unconsciousness and Its Limits • The Merits of Consciousness 
	Will We Ever Experience the Consciousness of Another? • Where Does 
	Consciousness Rank in the Grand Scheme?

	CHAPTER ELEVEN Under the Light							312

	By Feeling and by Light • Under the Light


	APPENDIX Notes on Mind and Brain						317

	Glossary of Sorts • What Is an Image and What Is a Neural Pattern?
	Images Are Not Just Visual • Constructing Images • Representations
	Maps • Mysteries and Gaps of Knowledge in the Making of Images
	New Terms • Some Pointers on the Anatomy of the Nervous System
	The Brain Systems behind the Mind

	Endnotes									336
	Acknowledgments									366
	Index										369
	About the Author								386