In order for us to study this theory, we need to know first the history of the development of self-concept theory. The earliest milestone in the self-concept theory is that of Rene Descartes, who proposed that a person’s existence depended on how he perceives so. Sigmund Freud, one of...
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The main motivation for this article is in the author's belief that, although the concept of information is a key to understanding and studying mind-brain relationship, the earlier directions of research on the mechanisms in the brain responsible for consciousness, cognition, sense of self did ...