Gedankengang

Highly schematic depiction of the nested relation between ego-center, neural body and neural
world constituting the analog neural simulation (“reality space”) proposed as a solution to the tri-partite
selection problem described in the text. Black depicts the physical universe, one part of which is the
physical body (black oval), both of which are necessarily outside of consciousness. One part of the physical
body is the physical brain (circle; shaded and unshaded). The heavy black line separating the reality space
from other functional domains within the brain indicates the exclusion of those domains from
consciousness (unshaded). Arrows mark interfaces across which neural information may pass without
entering consciousness. The designation ego-center is a sensorimotor construct unrelated to the concept of
self-consciousness. See text for further details.