But how is the brain supposed to know itself?

• +.."Thrashing in the water, thrashing in the water"...
• +.. psychedelic
• +.. Blues

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Step by step, all subjective and qualitative elements have been practically excluded from science’s reinterpretation of the world. Even life itself could be reduced to biochemical molecular processes, albeit at a high cost: everything we associate with the existence of living organisms—sensation, feeling, self-movement, striving for something—was ruled out of research into living beings or equally displaced to an inner subjective world. With neurobiology as the new leading science, this program has reached a decisive point. Cleansing nature by the displacement of qualities into an inner subjective world is no longer enough. Subjective experience and indeed human consciousness itself must now be naturalized and reduced to physical processes. If this materialist explanation of brain functions was successful, the last citadel of subjective and qualitative being in the physical desert left by reductionism would finally be razed. “De-anthropomorphizing” nature would turn into the complete naturalization of the human being.
Fuchs, Thomas. Ecology of the Brain: The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind