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The Accidental Mind, by David Linden.
https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Mind-Evolution-Memory-Dreams/dp/0674030583/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
> With only physical brains, there are no subjects, there are only objects.
What do you mean? Our brains are capable of building a model of reality, creating abstract concepts for real world objects. Our brains are good at simulating agency, and ascribing agency to the models that exist in our mind. That ability is actually one of the reasons that human beings are superstitious, our brains are overactive when it comes to ascribing agency to things (including inanimate objects and processes).
Science has a pretty good understanding of where those types of things take place in the brain. There are years of experimentation on that type of stuff, a lot of it is available for you to read about online if you're curious. I recently read a book that talks about this type of stuff, if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Mind-Evolution-Memory-Dreams/dp/0674030583/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499716922&sr=1-1&keywords=the+accidental+mind