Antonio Damasio の"The Feeling of What Happens"を読む。数多い脳科学の本の中では、臨床例などの具体的な事実を踏まへ、一般にも分かる文章で書かれてをり、好感が持てるものの一つだ。
科学者の立場から、二元論を排するといふ立場を明確にしつつ、現時点で分からないことは「謎だ」とはつきりと書く態度も好ましい。例へば、次の一節（３２２頁）。
There is no mystery regarding the question of where images come from. Images come from the activity of brains and those brains are part of living organisms that interact with physical, biological, and social environment. Accordingly, images arise from neural patterns, or neural maps, formed in populations of nerve cells, or neurons, that constitute curcuits, or networks. There is a mystery, however, regarding HOW images emerge from neural patterns. How a neural pattern BECOMES an image is a problem that neurobiology has not net resolved.
