If we are to think seriously about the consciousness and he brain, we need to consider the work of Douglas Hofstadter , the preeminent modern thinker on the subject. Hofstadter coined the term "neosphere" as the universe of memes , or ideas. In "I Am A Strange Loop", he explores what we mean when we say "I". Along the way, we learn to picture our mind in a completely new way, as a dynamic generator of memes, woven out of other memes and episodic memory. What we experience as "I" is the "master meme", the name we give to the process of meme-weaving we experience at any moment. The "master meme" is self referential or "recursive", which means it includes itself as part of its "explanation" of what is going on. Our language requires an "experiencer" for every experience, and this experiencer is (recursively) called "I" as well. This is Hofstader's  "Strange Loop". According to...