Scientists are reasonably confident that they can describe and study and explain the biological stuff you're walking around in. The you part--the self that feels like it inhabits or animates that body and looks out at the world from it--that part is where things get a lot trickier. There were a couple of items circulating this week on the topic of self: an editorial on whether self is an illusion, and a discussion of the proposal that consciousness is a state of matter (named perceptronium, presumably by James Cameron). … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Who’s Wearing You?