I personally do not find Damasio's style or approach particularly engaging, save the chapters on Spinoza and his political/philosophical influences. His style seems haphazard and clumsy in its attempt to be simple and as a scientific inquiry, too empirical and materialistic for my taste. So I'm reading chapters quite out of order (his writing on Spinoza, the man, and his political/philosophical influence as well as others of the so-called Enlightenment is probably the most engaging part of the book). I'll join the discussions in a couple of days (we still have the second half of February to go) after I've finished it.Ando