Antonio Damasio

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.