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In different ways, these two books are concerned with understanding human consciousness and consider the theory of evolution as key to explaining it. Both are written in engaging, largely jargon-free prose that will be accessible, and of interest, to the educated reader. Damasio (Descartes' Error; The Feeling of What Happens) is the more strictly "scientific" of the two authors, using his experience and experiments as a neurologist in trying to show that there is no split between mind and body-that, as Spinoza has argued, they are really unified and codependent. In the process, he investigates the phenomena of emotion and feeling and correlates them with hap...Log In or Sign Up to Read More