Two arguments for a pre-reflective core self: commentary on Praetorius (2009).

Contra Praetorius (2009), I present two brief arguments which support the existence within the human brain of a pre-reflective core self.

Space, self, and the theater of consciousness.

Over a decade ago, I introduced a large-scale theory of the cognitive brain which explained for the first time how the human brain is able to create internal models of its intimate world and invent models of a wider universe. An essential part of the theoretical model is an organization of neuronal mechanisms which I have named the Retinoid Model [Trehub, A. (1977).