At every moment, we are in fact a different image. A different entity when mirroring, when hungry, when reading this. Every second we become different persons as we go through different states. All this complex and almost schizophrenic subconscious behaviour is the result of a vastly parallel distributed system in our brain.
There is no specific center of consciousness, the appearance of a unity is, in fact, each of these separate circuits enabled and being expressed at one particular moment in time. – Joseph E LeDoux