Oliver Sacks wrote about a recent phase of his treatment for terminal cancer and it seems to shed a lot of light on what you deal with every day. Oliver Sacks: "The autonomic nervous system, sleeplessly monitoring every organ and tissue in the body, tells one how one is." The ANS is thus the body's system of self-awareness. As such, it can be seen as the seat of consciousness, because the experience of how we are, is intimately tied to our sense of who we are. ...
Oliver Sacks on the autonomic nervous system
