Essays about: "Amanda Vestin"

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  1. 1. Is There a You in Your Brain? : The Neuroscientific Support for the Bundle-Theory View of the Nature of the Self

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Amanda Vestin; [2019]
    Keywords : Self; neural basis of self; bundle theory; no unified self;

    Abstract : Why do you experience yourself as a continuous self? This is a central question when regarding the self and it has two kinds of answers: either there is something like an ego inside you which is the entity perceiving all your experiences (the ego theory-view), or there is no such thing as a self or an ego and you are just a collection of different perceptions (the bundle theory-view). There are many different components all contributing to the concept of self as a whole leading to different neuroscientific ways of measuring it and some researchers are arguing for the nonexistence of a unified self-system within the brain. READ MORE