我们的感觉是大脑的一个次级例行程序，它基于自我的感觉，而自我的感觉是大脑为数众多的创造物之一：一种身为可以体验事物、记忆它的历史、可以行动并具备感觉和目标的活动的实体的感觉 — — 即著名神经科学家安东尼奥·达马西奥（Antonio Damasio）所谓的亲历式自我（autobiographical self ） 。
The sense of us is a subroutine of the brain based on the sense of self, which is one of our brain’s many creations: a sensation of being an ongoing entity that experiences things, remembers its history, can act, and has feelings and goals – what the eminent neuroscientist Antonio Damasio calls an autobiographical self.