" Hypothetically, if you would reduce the feeling “tracks” of your mind, you would be left with desiccated chains of sensory images of the exterior world in all the familiar varieties—sights, sounds, touches, smells, tastes, more or less concrete or abstract, translated or not in some symbolic form, namely, verbal, arising from actual perception or recalled from memory. Worse, if you had been born without the feeling tracks, the rest of the images would have traveled in your mind unaffected and unqualified "

― António R. Damásio , The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures