Underneath the layered expressions of selfhood involving memories of the past and plans for the future, before the explicit sense of personal identity, beneath the ‘I’ and even prior to the emergence of a first-person perspective and experiences of body ownership, there are deeper layers of selfhood still to be found. These bedrock layers are intimately tied to the interior of the body, rather than to the body as an object in the world, and they range from emotions and moods – what psychologists call ‘affective’ experiences – to a basal, formless, and ever-present sense of simply ‘being’ an
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