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BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self

Brain Inspired

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Is a Brain Necessary for Self?

I was also thinking about how far down or back the evolutionary tree to ascribe selves. Do organisms without brains not have selves? Is a brain necessary for self? Easy questions. Yeah. So I've been giving a brain based account of self. That is certainly where I have been leaning. But I need to work a little bit more on the mechanisms. Like what exactly a self isn't like a kind of mechanistic account of what the subject is. Right now I don't feel confident enough to say that that's not possible.

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