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What can We Learn About the Self from Neuroscience

A. H. Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach, talks about the self and what we are learning from neuroscience. "The self develops its structure, or structures, by establishing self-representations. The self as structure is the soul patterned by the integrated impressions of its past experiences. The self experiences itself, then, from within and through this representation, that is, indirectly. The self-representation functions as a layer between the consciousness that is the experiencer and the self that is experienced. So the development of the representation involves the loss of both the nonduality and the immediacy of the original experience of the self." - A. H. Almaas, The Point of Existence, ch. 17 "In the past few decades the study of consciousness has become a very active interdisciplinary field with intense research and debate, spanning the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and even physics. The attempt to study consciousness scientifically has run into many difficulties due to the nature of the subject matter, but has also resulted in some fertile lines of inquiry. By consciousness, the researchers mean either the capacity for perception or the awareness of sentience or subjectivity; the emphasis changes according to the particular study. The area of greatest disagreement is the question of explaining subjective experience. Researchers generally fall into two major camps on this issue, divided by the mode of access emphasized in the research. Guzeldere describes it this way: “But as far as the epistemology of the matter goes, there appears to be a genuine asymmetry between the mode of access to facts of one’s own consciousness and the mode of access to facts about other’s conscious states." - A. H. Almaas, The Inner Journey Home, Appendix F "'Ipseity' means it is its own nature and it is its own self. Hence it is both self and the nature of self. 'Ipseity' means the nature of all things, but also the self of all things. It is a nature, a reality that is the self. So, it is not the self in the sense of being an entity or identity or having a sense of self. It is the self in the sense of being the actuality of what is. It is both the thing itself and the nature of the thing. It is both the gold and the lion in the golden statue of a lion. The gold is the nature, the lion is the self, but the ipseity is both; it is the golden lion. - A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Five, ch. 2 "Everybody has these structures. Some people might experience them earlier than others, but everybody has them because everybody went through that period of life. Nobody was born at two years old. We all had these early experiences, and the soul is impressionable right from the beginning. Some people actually have structures in their soul before implantation in the uterine wall, while just a zygote, and sometimes even before the formation of the zygote. Since object relations theory first appeared, modern psychology has evolved to include these precognitive structures. Consciousness can retain impressions without the thinking mind retaining them. And, of course, neuroscience also strongly supports this idea because neural networks are already formed whether you know something in your mind or not, whether you can think about it or not. The neural networks begin to develop before birth and, at some point after birth, they develop enough so that we can recognize something and remember it, and our mind can constellate it and organize it. Before that development, there is simply an impression in the consciousness, in the soul itself, that congeals, forms, and patterns it in some way." - A. H. Almaas, Runaway Realization, ch. 14 "In infancy, before the construction of the self-representation, there is experience of self, but not recognition of it as the self because the infant lacks the capacity to be self-reflective. Thus, the self begins to recognize itself in childhood as the self-representation develops, and not before. This fact holds great significance because, by the time we become aware of ourselves as individuals we are already experiencing ourselves within and through the developing self-representation. So we do not ever perceive the opportunity to recognize ourselves independently from the developing self-representation. Therefore, when there is self-recognition, this recognition occurs via self-concepts, and the child’s experience is no longer completely immediate." - A. H. Almaas, The Point of Existence, ch. 5 #theself #selfimage #selfrepresentation #selfrecognition #objectrelations #ipseity #sentience