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|title=Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

|author=Antonio Damasio

|publisher=Vintage

|date=January 2012

|summary=A demanding but fascinating look at the problem of consciousness which attempts to present an evolutionary and neurobiological framework for the emergence of conscious mind focused on self.

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What makes us, us? How is awareness of one's own being created in the human mind? What makes ''me'' who got up this morning ''me'' that went to bed last night, and the same ''me'' that got up on most mornings in the preceding forty-odd years? How is it that we see, remember and understand things, other humans and the world in general? And who is doing the understanding? How is it that we are conscious of our own experiences, and how is it that we are conscious of ourselves being conscious?