To me, there are levels of self-awareness, just as there are levels of cognition or general...
Multiple Sclerosis Memory Loss
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Thinking about one's own thinking is worthwhile. Before he recently died, the great scientist and DNA co-discoverer, Sir Francis Crick, was fascinated by the whole issue of consciousness and whether it had a seat in the brain. I just wonder if the small region he identified deep in the brain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrum, will ever explain all we need to know about our self-awareness.
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