The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (review)

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Born to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks (2017, background): “Neuroscien-tiﬁc advances reviewed in Damasio (1999); LeDoux (2003); Pascual-Leone et al. (2005); Doidge (2007); Draganski and May (2008) reveal that fundamental sensations, motor patterns, associations, and ways of thinking are less instinctive and hardwired than previously thought.”
Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction (2007, background): “More generally, feeling states are thought to be mediated by structures that receive inputs regarding the internal milieu and musculoskeletal structures and include the brainstem tegmentum, hypothalamus, insula, and somatosensory and cingulate cortices (Damasio, 1999).”
Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures (2000, background): “Damasio (1999a, 1999b) provides a biological explanation for how emotions might be felt in humans.”
Is Emotion a Natural Kind (2002, background): “This is largely because of the work of the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio (Damasio, 1994; Damasio, 1999).”
The Feeling Body: Toward an Enactive Approach to Emotion (2007, background): “Similarly , Damasio (1994, 1999, 2003) claims that emotions can be activated through so-called " as-if body loops " —brain mechanisms that trick the brain into believing that the body is undergoing a change, when in fact it is not.”