"Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain" by philosopher Patricia Churchland

[Angrboda]

I'm definitely interested, but from the blurb you posted, it sounds a lot like what I said of Damasio's book, Self Comes To Mind — the author has a lot of interesting information, but he's still looking for a model to tie it all together. A friend remarked that the field of neuroscience is "awash in a sea of data," without any higher level ideas to give it form and substance. It's possible that there simply aren't unifying ideas or an all encompassing model which explains mind and consciousness; it wouldn't be unexpected from both the biological and computational architecture of the brain. Or perhaps Churchland and others are jumping the gun and throwing in the towel prematurely.

Regardless, I would recommend her earlier work, "Neurophilosophy." It's my all-time favorite book, and I've just recently started re-reading it, and finding much to merit the re-acquaintance.