Post by jahmald98 on Nov 25, 2017 21:20:35 GMT
The evidence that Damasio used to refer to the quote above is that The human mind perceives not only the modifications of the body, but also the ideas of such modifications." meaning that once you form an idea of a certain object, you can form an idea of the idea, and an idea of the idea of the idea, and so forth. This occurs in the mind substance (can be identified as the brain-mind sector). The notion of ideas of ideas is important because it opens the way for representing relationships and creating symbols and it opens a way for creating an idea of self. He describes this by saying that self is an idea because it is a second order of idea. The first 2 order of idea is that we have an idea of the object that we are perceiving; and then we have the idea of our body as it is modified by the perception of the object. This then leads to the second order idea of self which is the relationship between the two other ideas — object perceived and body modified by perception.
