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Self Comes to Mind

by Antonio Damasio

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2018
  • First published 2010

neuroscience consciousness

Damasio proposes how the brain builds a sense of self from body signals and layered maps.   He argues that the self is a process that emerges step by step, not a single thing located in one place.