The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 10 of 254
Self assembled from many brain systems
So how does it all come together? It’s too soon to say that there is a definitive answer, but there are sufficient similarities between different researchers’ views to suggest that the outlines of an answer are in place. The central insight is that the sense of self is constructed from a variety of different brain systems working together. Some of these are very old and are shared with very unsophisticated animals. Others are unique to higher mammals.