Note 35. To the Subsection “6. Process of Cognition and Physiological Conditions”
Eccles states the following: “These considerations lead me to the alternative hypothesis of dualist-interactionism, which has been expanded at length in The Self and its Brain. It is really the commonsense view, namely, that we are a combination of two things or entities: our brains on the one hand; and our conscious selves on the other. The self is central to the totality of our conscious experiences as persons through our whole waking life. We link it in memory from our earliest conscious experiences. The self has a subconscious existence during sleep, except for dreams, and on waking the conscious self is resumed and linked with the past by the continuity of memory.” J. C. Eccles and D. N. Robinson, The Wonder of Being Human (New York: The Free Press, 1984), 33.