Get a quick overview about what feelings and emotions are and why they are important. Also gain some insights into Dr. Antonio Damasio's work.

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"For decades, biologists spurned emotion and feeling as uninteresting. But Antonio Damasio demonstrated that they were central to the life-regulating processes of almost all living creatures. Damasio's essential insight is that feelings are "mental experiences of body states," which arise as the brain interprets emotions, themselves physical states arising from the body's responses to external stimuli."