Eleventy Pages

Eleventy Pages because really I was just aiming for ten. Having failed at the ten, I signed up on a course to help me 'focus.' Over the next ten weeks I'll be writing about the course, the demons that writers face and well.. anything else that comes to mind.

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    Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neuroscience of Selfhood (Scientific American)

    psychotherapy:

    Where are you right now? Maybe you are at home, the office or a coffee shop—but such responses provide only a partial answer to the question at hand. Asked another way, what is the location of your “self” as you read this sentence? Like most people, you probably have a strong sense that your conscious self is housed within your physical body, regardless of your surroundings.

    But sometimes this spatial self-location goes awry. During a so-called out-of-body experience, for example, one’s self seems to be transported outside the physical body into a surreal perspective—some people even believe they are viewing their bodies from above, as though their true selves were floating. In a related experience, people with a delusion known as somatoparaphrenia disown one of their limbs or confuse another person’s limb for their own. Such warped perceptions help researchers understand the neuroscience of selfhood…

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