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The relationship between the brain and the self is explored through physicalist perspectives that equate the self to the brain [1], functionalist theories describing the self as a construct of the brain [2], and philosophical debates regarding their ontological status {fact:1, fact:4}.
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Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com 2 facts
quoteAlexander Rosenberg states: “if the mind is the brain (and scientism can’t allow that it is anything else)… we have to stop taking our selves seriously… We have to realize that there is no self, soul or enduring agent, no subject of the first-person pronoun, tracking its interior life while it also tracks much of what is going on around us. This self cannot be the whole body, or its brain, and there is no part of either that qualifies for being the self by way of numerical-identity over time. There seems to be only one way we make sense of the person whose identity endures over time and over bodily change. This way is by positing a concrete but non-spatial entity with a point of view somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears in the middle of our heads. Since physics has excluded the existence of anything concrete but nonspatial, and since physics fixes all the facts, we have to give up this last illusion consciousness foists on us.”
claimPhysicalists suggest that the self is a physical object, such as a body or a brain, and that conscious states are ultimately physical states.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimThe paper titled 'Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self-awareness' argues that stable realities like the self and emotional experiences are functional constructs developed by the brain to minimize uncertainty and optimize survival, rather than metaphysical truths.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
referenceKarl Popper and John C. Eccles authored 'The Self and Its Brain', published by Springer in 1977.