Descartes' Error

This book by Antonio Damasio was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: John Vervaeke. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness, meditation & mindfulness, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “a good place to point people about this is Damasio's Descartes' Error. You have people who have a certain kind of brain damage”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “a good place to point people about this is Damasio's Descartes' Error”
  John Vervaeke · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 202301:45:22

  Said during "John Vervaeke, How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features John Vervaeke: Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory, and creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates. Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses the meaning crisis.