Ju-Ge

There's a basic puzzle in consciousness studies: we all clearly feel the existence of "self", but all scientific evidence points to it being a constructed product. I lean towards the constructionist view, but think existing theories miss a key mechanism. They describe the finished building, but don't explain how the...

Where does the "self"—the seemingly unified subject of our experience—come from? The standard model of a central executive or a Cartesian theater faces well-known philosophical and scientific challenges. This post proposes an alternative model grounded in information processing and developmental dynamics. I argue we have conflated the data, the processing,...