Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

“So, that's not, that's not me. That is, that is neurology. So, if you read a book called Descartes' Error, 2012, he wrote that the emotional center of the brain is what makes decisions.”

“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Descartes' Error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something. And so we've known this for a long time. So basically, if I pull out that emotional part of your brain, it's going to take you like a half an hour to decide what color pen to use.”

“Yeah, I think it's you know, it's a mixture. On the one hand, you absolutely need emotions. If you have no emotions, as we know from Antonio Damasio's original work in his book, Descartes' Error, which he put out just as I was starting as a postdoc in Iowa in 1994, I think, you know, if you have massive frontal lobe”