Antonio Damasio and Dan Siegel - Mind, Consciousness, the Body, and Relationships

BrainMind Summit - Consciousness Day hosted at Stanford
Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD
Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology & Philosophy, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California
dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-a...
Antonio Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of brain processes underlying emotions, feelings, and consciousness. His work on the role of affect in decision-making made a major impact in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. He is one of the most eminent psychologists of the modern era and one of the most cited scientists worldwide.
His most recent book is: The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (2018).
Damasio is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous prizes, among them the International Freud Medal, the Grawemeyer Award, the Honda Prize, and the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology.
He holds Honorary Doctorates from several leading Universities, e.g. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Sorbonne (Université Paris Descartes). Damasio’s books, Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza and Self Comes to Mind, are taught in universities worldwide.
Daniel Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute
www.drdansiegel.com/
Dr. Siegel is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach. His latest bestselling book is called Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.

[@robertmitchell3804]

Thank you so much for making this public. What an utterly brilliant discussion 🙏🙏🙏

[@euaeve]

Wow! When the legends get together!! What a great video to watch!! 🧠❤️

[@MarttiSuomivuori]

Twenty years ago I read Descartes's Error. It was an eye-opener. I still think it was the most relevant book Antonio Damasio wrote. Nowadays it is all about getting an audience. Anything goes, truisms and even lies. Me comes to mind.

[@youtubecanal]

Problems in the Upper Left Quadrant are deeply associated with problems in the Lower Left Quadrant, both Interior realm, … see Integral Theory and AQUAL of Ken Wilber to understand the coneections between the systems.

[@kennethkunz2449]

Hey this was really good! But - someone should slap the two 'unconscious' people sitting in the front row who persist in carrying on a whispered conversation while the rest of us struggle to follow an engaging colloquy between of two very intelligent men.

[@onlijnatfreeler]

Ow god: exactly! How my palms are aching to slap these two babbles right into the center of the hub of awareness... so relieved that some else feels the same about this mountainish inhumanity.

[@eliasmartinez6678]

Great perspective of professionals in the field. However, there appears to be a great sense of disconnect between the perception and understanding of Antonio Damasio and Dan Siegel's brain when compared to the young individuals taking their own life. How is this high level of thought and knowledge conveyed to a young person in terms that it can be understood and applied?

[@onlijnatfreeler]

There is another conversation between briljant minds available on the internet, which is one about the relation between adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, and the vagus nerve. This is a conversation, facilitated bij SAND, between dr. Steven Porges and dr. Gabor Maté. Beautifull. I'll include a link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apPMpJRpmb6Zbbc

[@RhenanMartinsRepoem]

Best.

[@sam_k8868]

13:00, 32:55

[@gvmohanrao]

Strange interview. You bring a genius and ask him questions outside his expertise!. Damasio's work enables far original answers to the questions being asked, but Damasio him self clueless.

[@sajangreat5497]

Hello India

[@citizenschallengeYT]

@MohanVenkata:"but Damasio is clueless"??? How's that?

[@mikemoss2275]

Seems dan is pretty full of himself the first 10 min.'s

[@cherieschaeffer6657]

maybe he is passionate - shame we judge these great thinkers- we need them

[@georgedelvalle4588]

can you imagine talking about high schoolers killing themselves without investigating the class dynamics of their choices and the world in which they are thrown into? absurd, to interpolate that with some "omg they're not connected" fabulism? the specificity and generality of damasio's approach is completely lost in this framework. he reenforces sociality but the interviewer only sees the world through the isolated individual.