Descartes' Error - The Concept of Self

The Concept of Self

In Descartes' Error, Damasio also explored the way 'the neural basis of the self' as I see it, resides with the continuous activation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography....The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of the individual's body'.

From these two sets, Damasio would later develop his concept of the hierarchy of consciousness, including the protoself, core consciousness, and extended consciousness - Stern's verbal self.