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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingIn his book DescartesБЂ™ Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: I suggested two alternative dates, both in the coming month and just a few days apart from each other. The patient pulled out his appointment book and began consulting the calendar. The behavior that ensued, which was witnessed by several investigators, was remarkable. For the better part of a half hour, the patient enumerated reasons for and against each of the two dates: previous engagements, proximity to other engagements, possible meteorological conditions, virtually anything that one could think about concerning a simple date. [He was] walking us through a tiresome cost-benefit analysis, an endless outlining and fruitless comparison of options and possible consequences. It took enormous discipline to listen to all of this without pounding on the table and telling him to stop. Damasio and his team also gave the gamblerБЂ™s test to their ventromedial patients. Most of the patients, just like the rest of us, eventually figured out that the red decks were a problem ...» |
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