Neuroscience and free will

My personal self is not an illusion altogether. What is an illusion is the feeling that my consciousness is all-of-a-piece, that it is a coherent singular thing. It may very well be made up of dozens of subsystems that "come together" to feel coherent.

~~ Paul

You don't know coherent consciousness is an illusion, but imagine it must be because it is the activity of many complex brain structures. You apparently visualize these "dozens of subsystems" coherently coming together as the coordinated or orchestrated activity of very many different structures in the brain. This ignores extensive veridical NDEs and other empirical evidence which indicates that the human mind is not tied to and totally a function of, brain structures. NDEers report (along with veridical data) a strong sense of coherent consciousness even more clear than normal in-the-body consciousness, even though their brains may be mostly shut down. This sense and experience of super-clear coherent consciousness seems to be located in some sort of center of consciousness separated from the physical body.