The Body Keeps the Score

这段话让我想起了人类简史认知革命，讨论不存在事物的能力是人类语言的独特性。

“It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting. People who go to the forest looking for fairies and unicorns would seem to have less chance of survival than people who go looking for mushrooms and deer. And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren’t you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting and fornicating?

But fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Such myths give Sapiens the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Ants and bees can also work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world."

要更加珍惜和认可想象力的重要性啊:D 只是人类真的是唯一拥有想象力的地球物种吗？

The resulting visceral sensations (ranging from mild queasiness to the grip of panic in your chest) will interfere with whatever your mind is currently focused on and get you moving — physically and mentally — in a different direction. Even at their most subtle, these sensations have a huge influence on the small and large decisions we make throughout our lives: what we choose to eat, where we like to sleep and with whom, what music we prefer, whether we like to garden or sing in the choir, and whom we befriend and whom we detest.

原文注解是C. Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London: Oxford University Press, 1998). 第71页。 无法寻得原文出处。存疑。 我开始怀疑作者的认真程度。 类似的，还有这个。作者使用双引号包括以下这段话的，说明这是一段原文引用：

我只在原文找到最相似的一段，而在这一段里是达尔文唯一一次说了pneumogastric nerve 的场景：

达尔文根本就没有用到gut这个词，他在The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals中用alimentary canal and glands指消化道的一切。他确实有讲消化系统和腺体会受到情感的影响。但达尔文似乎没有在第三章讲到情绪影响下哺乳类动物会忽视其他生存至关重要的行为（也许他在后面有讲）。没有虽然大概意思没错，但作者你堂堂一个医生这样子改别人的原文真的好吗？ 正因为作者的引用有这么大的问题，他下面的这些推论在我看来一点都不科学。全都从经验推论的，是民科好吗。

真是不如说你自己的case好了。