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  "id": 9721804,
  "title": "Book Excerpt: Why the Brain Isn’t the Self",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/book-excerpt-why-the-brain-isnt-the-self",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-25T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Undark",
    "slug": "undark",
    "url": "https://undark.org/2026/09/25/excerpt-challenger-alive/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The brain isn’t the self — consciousness is intimately linked with the human body. And if consciousness is the body’s way of knowing itself, then it is the living form in its entirety that should be taken as selfhood proper, with the brain as an especially feverish region.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}