Explain Art? Neuroscience Still Can’t Explain The Self

“The nature of the self, identity, and human values used to be the preserve of philosophers, but over recent decades psychologists and neuroscientists seem to have thoroughly colonised the territory. … [But] on the big questions about who we are, recent research has told us a great deal about the physical basis for the emergence of the sense of self, but next to nothing about what a self actually is.”