Sublime

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.

cleverest observer. Consider

a high-functioning Silicon Valley executive suffers from partial seizures in a region within the posteromedial cortex (on the inward-facing side of the cortical hemisphere, along the midline) during which his sense of self is distorted, including his perceived location in space; he eavesdrops on his own thoughts, a form of depersonalization. Direct

Gehirn inspiriert, wie es der Nobelpreisträger Karl Popper glaubte. Und trotzdem ist es nicht so, dass diese Kraft letztlich eine Illusion wäre, was viele zeitgenössische Wissenschaftler meinen. Im Gegenteil. Das Kern-Selbst ist die andere, die »innere« Seite des Stoffwechsels. Seine Kraft ermöglicht die ordnende Perspektive, den Standpunkt, innen,

A large region in the back of the neocortex, including temporal, parietal, and occipital neighborhoods, is closely linked to subjective experiences of sight, hearing, touch, and sensing of the body and the self. Because of its close association with consciousness, this region, the current best NCC candidate, is termed the posterior hot zone.

Einige Forscher (etwa der britische Hirnphysiologe Sir John Eccles oder der Mathematiker und Physiker Roger Penrose) haben darum versucht,