As Antonio Damasio argues in his aptly titled book Self Comes to Mind, the brain creates an autobiographical sense of self. It is this created self that perceives, remembers, and aspires, that has telos (or purpose), and on behalf of which decisions are made.
安东尼奥·达马西奥（Antonio Damasio）在其名称恰如其分的著作《自我成为思想》（Self Comes to Mind）中指出，大脑创造出一种自传式（autobiographical）的自我意识。这一被创造出来的自我行使感知、记忆和渴望功能，它拥有telos（或称目的），决策也都是依据它做出的。