afraid of some thing. But the very deepest levels of experienced selfhood – the inchoate feeling of ‘just being’ – seem to lack these external referents altogether. This, for me, is the true ground-state of conscious selfhood: a formless, shapeless, control-oriented perceptual prediction about the present and future physiological condition of the body itself. This is where being you begins, and it is here that we find the most profound connections between life and mind, between our beast machine nature and our conscious self.
