The idea that there's a single location for things like self-awareness is silly, and comes from the fact that we lack the language or the mental metaphors to talk about emergent, epiphenomenal, decentralized processes.<p>Even economics, which studies such things almost exclusively, struggles with thinking about them.<p>For some reason though we have no issues with this in more mundane spheres. We can speak of a tornado, even though it's an ephemeral "thing" composed of other things that is in a constant state of flux.