The Curse of Kanye West

Where does the part of you that is “you” subsist? Your personality, your character, your soul if you want to call it that. Most of us would probably say intuitively that it’s somewhere in the brain. If we were feeling science-y, we might say something about the prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain believed to have responsibility for executive functions like planning, behavioural regulation and decision making. Take away this lump of grey matter, and you take away the person too.