El extraño orden de las cosas

In this book the author provides us with the keys to understand what feelings are and what relationship they have with our body. Once again, it shows us that body and mind are closely related and that feelings are the foundation of our mind, revelations of the state of life within the entire organism. Damasio presents us with a unique and pioneering investigation into the relationship established between the fact of feeling and its condition of regulating life, known by the scientific name of homeostasis. It makes clear that we descend both biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with just a few living cells; that our minds and cultures are tied by an invisible thread to the old one-celled life; that there is a very powerful force of self-preservation that governs everything, inherent in the very chemistry of life. The mysterious nature of things offers us a new way of understanding the world and also of our place in it.