Science of Self (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 08, 2014, 00:42 (3915 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Do "you" really exist?
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> http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/inquiring-minds-jennifer-ouellette-scien... 
> "Out of this unimaginable complexity emerges the self as we think we know it—and scientists have identified many of the component parts. For instance, there are specific brain regions associated with recognizing yourself in the mirror, feeling that you're in your own body, feeling that your body begins and ends somewhere, and recognizing where you are in space. So how then can anyone argue that there is not actually such a thing as a self?"-Great find. The answer in the same article is:-"More specifically, Ouellette ultimately concludes that the self is an emergent property of the billions of neurons of our brain all interacting with one another. What's emergence? "A system in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," writes Ouellette."-My 'self' is a part of my emergent consciousness. But it is hard to go much further.