The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

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The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an “I” that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of “self feeling.

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