Sublime

Your brain is a giant of its own, made up of a network of 86 billion neurons.10 An isolated neuron is pretty useless. But by communicating with one another, a group of neurons can move upward on the Emergence Tower and combine into a single thinking system that’s far more powerful than the sum of its parts: the brain.

why brains support self-modeling; they allow an adaptive system to encode the causal consequences of their own actions,

Just as Davies, Dyson and Nagel have argued, a number of scientists now suggest, based on the theory of the quantum world, that consciousness may in fact be a fundamental property of the cosmos – far from the ‘accidental by-product’ of a biological brain.

In subsequent work he was able to locate neurological damage to the part of their brains that create and control our sense of body image. This damage had occurred at birth, or very early on. This meant that the brain could create a body image in a perfectly healthy person that was highly irrational. It seemed as well that our sense of self is far

Your brain is a network​—a collection of parts that are connected to function as a single unit.

living in a group is solved by having a large enough brain to manage the stresses involved.

the degree of conscious experience at any moment, how rich it is perceptually, would correspond to the number of states that could be experienced by the system,