Body Am I The New Science of Self-Consciousness [Audiobook] [#550056]

Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVPMPKHY | 2023 | 7 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Moheb Costandi
Narrator: Ray Greenley
The body is central to our sense of identity. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes. Costandi explains that the brain generates maps and models of the body that guide how we perceive and use it, and that these maps and models are repeatedly modified and reconstructed.