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141 " the individual mind had to create a mental perspective for the whole organism relative to those two sets of representations— "
― António R. Damásio , The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
142 " The rise of human cultures should be credited to both conscious feeling and creative intelligence. "
143 " All mind is made of images, "
144 " the process of consciousness itself relies on images. "
145 " Genes often operate in bundled fashion, a bit like toxic mortgages. "
146 " La medicina no empezó como un deporte intelectual pensado para ejercitar nuestro ingenio ante un diagnóstico enigmático o un misterio fisiológico, sino que lo hizo como consecuencia de ciertos sentimientos específicos de los pacientes y de los sentimientos que estos despertaban en los primeros médicos; "
147 " I have no doubt that intellect, sociality, and language have played key roles in the process, and it goes without saying that the organisms capable of cultural invention, along with the specific faculties used in the invention, are present in humans by the grace of natural selection and genetic transmission. The idea is that something else was required to jump-start the saga of human cultures. That something else was a motive. I am referring specifically to feelings, from pain and suffering to well-being and pleasure. "
148 " The difference is staggering, by a factor of 10. In the human gut alone, there are usually around 100 trillion bacteria, while in one entire human being there are only about 10 trillion cells, counting all types. "
149 " Phineas Gage's case is not the only importanthistorical source in the effort to understand the neural basis ofreasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a numberof personality traits...One way of describing their predicamentis by saying that they never construct an appropriate theory abouttheir persons. "
― António R. Damásio