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Nature 424, 15-16 (3 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424015a

The mind behind me

Marc Hauser1

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How and why does the brain generate a sense of self?

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness

by Julian Keenan with , Gordon G. Gallup, Jr & & Dean Falk


Harper Collins: 2003. 304 pp. US$24.95, Can$38.95

In the film Memento, the main character, Leonard Shelby, suffers an injury to the head that creates a nightmarish problem. Although his experiences before the injury are clear, everything that has happened after it is unfamiliar, even events that occurred just moments before.