There have been many analyses and postulations about the complicated and fragmented nature of the self. Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran puts it starkly: the idea of ‘a single unified self “inhabiting” the brain may indeed be an illusion’. Robert Kurzban and Athena Aktipis state that ‘the self that talks and controls muscles is but one subsystem in the modular architecture’. Psychologists Douglas Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius have identified from the mass of our complex behaviour a number of ‘subselves’ – versions of ourself subconsciously selected by our nervous system to take the
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