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“... Antonio Damasio’s two previous books, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens, appealed not only to scientists. The citations, prizes and honours, not to mention the author’s photograph, reveal that Damasio, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, is also a person of deep sensitivity and broad cosmopolitan culture ...”

“... and the materialist theories of consciousness propounded by such writers as Steven Pinker and Antonio Damasio. He also has a cautious faith in the ennobling potential of literature and the redemptive capacities of romantic love. Enduring Love sets the two kinds of thinking against one another, but his recent novels are more concerned with ...”

“... have nothing much to say about consciousness as present awareness. For example, he mentions Antonio Damasio’s proposal that consciousness evolved very late in animal history, and depends on specific structures in the brain. I have reservations about Damasio’s enthusiasms, but he has an important idea. It ...”