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في ١٧‏/٠٥‏/٢٠١٣، الساعة ٢:٤١ ص، كتب Jim Bromer <[email protected]>:

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> http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/damasioreview.html
> Somatic marker mechanism
> 
> Perhaps the most fertile of Damasio’s ideas, and one which has had a major 
> influence upon my own work, is the idea of a ‘somatic marker’ mechanism which 
> forms the basis of human consciousness. The somatic marker mechanism is the 
> way in which cognitive representations of the external world interact with 
> cognitive representations of the internal world - where perceptions interact 
> with emotions.
> Many animals display awareness of external sensory stimuli (eg. monkeys may 
> be aware of specific aspects of the visual environment they see, as 
> demonstrated in innumerable experiments). But what is unusual about humans is 
> that we are also aware of our bodies, our ‘selves’, and this inner-directed 
> attention forms the root of consciousness. Damasio argues that consciousness 
> is based upon an awareness of the ‘somatic’ milieu, and that awareness of 
> inner states evolved because this enables us to use somatic states (ie. 
> emotions) to ‘mark’, and thereby ‘evaluate’, external perceptual information. 
> And this interaction of cognitive representations occurs in working memory 
> (probably located in the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex).
> 
> For example, when registering the identity of an aggressive man, the body 
> state of fear in response is also registered. In order to use this in 
> planning future action, the brain needs to create a cognitive representation 
> that contains both the external perceptual information (identity of the man) 
> and the internal emotional information (fear in response to that particular 
> man) - and this is achieved in working memory by the simple device of having 
> evolved the ability to project body state representations into working memory 
> where we can be aware of them. 
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