Consciousness functions like a story the brain tells about its own representing

Evidence

Looking back, with the license of metaphor, one might say that the swift, second-order nonverbal account narrates a story: that of the organism caught in the act of representing its own changing state as it goes about representing something else. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 199

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Damasio’s broader narrative-self view of consciousness.