" Nervous systems gradually enabled a process of multidimensional mapping of the world around them, a world that begins in the organism’s interior, so that minds—and feelings within those minds—would be possible. The mapping was based on varied sensory abilities, which eventually came to include smell, taste, touch, hearing, and vision. As will become clear in chapters 4 through 9, the making of minds—and of feelings in particular—is grounded on interactions of the nervous system and its organism. Nervous systems make minds not by themselves but in cooperation with the rest of their own organisms. This is a departure from the traditional view of brains as the sole source of minds. "

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