Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

(one study describes our minds as a “menu of illusions”2).

Neuroscience does not reveal a central ego in the brain that marks who we are, as opposed to what we experience or do. There is no single place in the brain where it all “comes together,” or where consciousness is seated.

we are creeping towards the slightly discomforting idea that what we call our mind or consciousness is constructed by an integrated set of brain structures that models selves and worlds, provides more or less clarity and insight, and can induce both lucid dreams and OBEs.