'Brain-reading' Methods Developed
This news kind of seems to affirm Hume's bundle theory of mind, but in a bit of a more extended way. Not only are the states associated with the "self" not really a coherent whole, but states associated with individual components of thoughts in that "self" are themselves kind of diffuse, spread out over the brain.
Here's another similar report:
Oprah, Luke Skywalker And Maradona: New Study Investigates How Our Brains Respond To Them