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Subjectivity is probably the most central property of conscious experience. Any given subjective experience is experienced from first-person perspective, feels unified to the subject of experience, and is endowed with an intrinsic mineness. How can neuronal mechanisms account for those properties? I will present the neural subjective frame, a proposal where subjectivity relies on brain-body interactions - more precisely, interoceptive signals coming from the heart or the stomach would act in the brain as an unconscious glue to bind together distributed information into a conscious, unified experience, of the external world or of mental contents. I will show that this proposal is backed up by experimental evidence in humans, coming from experimental situations as varied as resting state and spontaneous thoughts, vision at threshold, perspective taking or subjective preferences for cultural goods.
