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Michael Schaefer

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Who Am I: The Conscious and the Unconscious Self

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience March 17, 2017 Michael Schaefer, Georg Northoff 43 citations

Who am I? What is the self and where does it come from? This may be one of the oldest problems in philosophy. Beyond traditional philosophy, only very recently approaches from neuroscience (in particular imaging studies) have tried to address these questions, too. So what are neural substrates of our self? An increasing body of evidence has demonstrated that a set of structures labeled as...