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We think, therefore I am.
Molyneux's mecosystem
I just picked up my fifth Michael Pollen book, A World Appears: a Journey into Consciousness

https://www.amazon.com/World-Appears-Journey-into-Consciousn...

Very excited to start turning pages on this one (after his How to Change Your Mind, Botany of Desire, Shedbook, cannot remember fourth rn).

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For the brief period my half braindead mother was conscious, it was interesting to play my own Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -clinician. Watching videos of corpus-collosum -severed people, interacting with worlds/hemispheres... is quite an interesting take on being-whole-braint.

> Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.

Good guess there, Masud, but do we actually know this?

Damage to the pre-frontal lobes can thrash the personality more than damage elsewhere, so it seems plausible that the processes and relationships that hold up the self concept are likely concetrated there.