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What does it even mean to say "I own my brain"? What is this "I" that's doing the owning?
From my point of view it just seems like brain exists and that brain is having a subjective experience. The sense of self is just one of those experiences. It's not real - there's no self located within the brain. Atleast not that we know of.
That’s what my man the Buddha was saying 25 odd centuries ago. Yet here we are