Today, neuroscience treats consciousness as a process that is confined to the brain, as something that makes us aware of information that would otherwise be unconscious. This view is underpinned by an assumption: that consciousness is a self-contained and self-governing mechanism, a hidden entity waiting to be located and explained.
My own research initially followed this line of thought, treating consciousness as a cognitive program created by particular areas of the human brain. However, the problem with thinking of consciousness as something tangible is that we cannot actually “locate” it.
