The enigmatic nature of the experience of self-awareness is examined in the light of recent discoveries and, on this basis, combined with inferences derived introspectively from the experience of the phenomenon itself; a specific physical locus of this experience within the human brains is deduced-proposed. The fundamental premise in this work is that whereever conscious self-awareness is...
A network of interacting neural structures, called monitors, exists in the mammalian brain in which data derived from sensory inputs and from memory stores is precisely displayed within the brain. The key function of monitors is to provide an 'ultimate monitor', proposed to be the locus that generates the phenomenon of conscious self awareness, with information that defines or maps the...