The pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of human consciousness, which includes the subjective experience of perception, is a long-standing endeavor. A multitude of disciplines have sought to elucidate and define consciousness, with a particular emphasis on its etiology. What is the cause of consciousness? One particularly eye-opening idea is that humans attempt to identify the source of...
The self is an increasingly central topic in current neuroscience. Understanding the neural processes that are involved in self-referential processing and functioning may also be crucial to understanding consciousness. The current short communication goes beyond the typical concept that the self is singular, as has been assumed from neuroanatomical descriptions of the self by fMRI and PET...