Philosophy has long been interested in questions concerning Consciousness and Personal Identity. But recently, thanks to the combination of a) advances in neurology and b) the articulation of a computational theory of mind, previously unquestioned assumptions about issues such as the very reality of consciousness, the unity of the self, and the methodology of introspection have suddenly become problems: of binding, the theater of consciousness and the spotlight of attention, of the illusion or construction of consciousness, and others.

This paper claims that features typical of neurological processes (positive feedback, oscillation, synchrony, etc) can best account for many of the "easy problems" of consciousness -- as non-linear dynamical processes. The author then offers pointers towards a non-linear dynamical systems approach to the problem of the self. In particular, the author looks to characteristics of autocatalytic closure as possible precursors to awareness, subjectivity and interiority.