Descartes' Error
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neurologist António Damásio. It presents the author's "somatic marker hypothesis", a proposed mechanism by which emotions guide (or bias) behavior and decision-making, and positing that rationality requires emotional input. In part a treatment of the mind/body dualism question, the book argues that René Descartes' "error" was the dualist separation of mind and body, rationality and emotion.
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