The Illusion of Self. What Neuroscience Says About Our Self-Perception

As we all know, we tell something about ourselves. However, as psychiatrist and neurobiologist Gregory Burns explains in his book "The Illusion of Self", we do not just tell stories, we are stories. Our self-perception is not a frozen monolith; it is constantly being reborn and rebuilt as our consciousness receives, filters, and transforms information from both the external world and our memory into motivation for future actions.