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Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples
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A concise sketch of the self-model theory of subjectivity (SMT; Metzinger, 2003a), aimed at empirical researchers. Discussion of some candidate mechanisms by which self-awareness could appear in a physically realized information-processing system like the brain, using empirical examples from various scientific disciplines. The paper introduces two core-concepts, the "phenomenal self-model" (PSM) and the "phenomenal model of the intentionality relation" (PMIR), developing a representationalist analysis of the conscious self and the emergence of a first-person perspective.
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“''Awareness of her phantom limbs is transiently disrupted only when some object or person invades their felt position or when she sees herself in a mirror.''”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000, p. 6168 source
The paper’s account of A.Z.’s phantom sensations (passage [1], labeled Abstract) states the cited sentence verbatim, including both circumstances that transiently disrupt her awareness. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In addition, premotor and parietal stimulation evoked similar phantom sensations, albeit in the absence of motor-evoked potentials in the stump.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000 source
The Abstract states the claim directly. The Results (TMS) also report phantom movement sensations after stimulation at a probable premotor site and two parietal locations without corresponding motor-evoked potentials. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the sensorimotor cortex consistently elicited phantom sensations in the contralateral fingers and hand.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000 source
The Abstract states the claim directly. The Results (TMS) specify that the reported phantom finger and hand movements were exclusively contralateral to the stimulated hemisphere; the finding concerns one participant born without forearms and legs. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“At the same time, it is possible to impair this mental transformation of the bodily self-model by interfering at this specific location with TMS.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Supportedcites Blanke et al., 2005 source
The TMS study reports that stimulation of the right temporoparietal junction slowed responses during mental own-body transformation, relative to stimulation of a control site. The effect occurred for front-facing figures when TMS was applied 350–550 ms after stimulus onset; the claim says this transformation can be impaired, not that impairment occurs under all conditions. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“The experience of seeing one's own body in a position that does not coincide with its felt position could therefore be caused by cerebral dysfunction at the TPJ, causing both types of functional disintegration and thereby leading to the representational configuration described above”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Partly supportedcites Blanke et al., 2005 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“Using evoked potential mapping, these authors also showed that a selective activation of the TPJ takes place 330-400 ms after healthy volunteers mentally imagined themselves being in a position and taking a visual perspective characteristic of an OBE.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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“In an epileptic patient with OBEs caused by damage at the TPJ, it could be shown that by mimicking the OBE-PSM (i.e., by mentally simulating an OBE like the ones she had experienced before), there was a partial activation of the seizure focus (Blanke et al., 2005).”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Partly supportedcites Blanke et al., 2005 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Patient study and Discussion report that mentally transforming her body to mimic her OBE activated the TPJ, with activity partly overlapping the epileptic seizure focus (Fig. 4, p. 557). The paper describes an epileptic seizure focus at the TPJ, but does not establish that TPJ damage caused her OBEs; it also reports overlapping task-related activity, not a seizure triggered by the task. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“It was also possible, for the first time, to induce an OBE-type state by direct electrical stimulation.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Partly supportedcites Blanke et al., 2005 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The TMS site and TMS intensity section reports that electrical stimulation of the right temporoparietal junction had been reported to induce OBEs, citing Blanke et al. (2002). It does not say this was the first such induction; its own stimulation experiment tested a mental-imagery task, not induction of an OBE. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“In a recent study, Olaf Blanke and colleagues were able to localize the relevant brain lesion or dysfunction in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) in five out of six patients.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Partly supportedcites Blanke et al., 2005 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not specified in our copy) links TPJ activity to the epileptic focus in a patient who experienced an out-of-body experience. The paper supports TPJ involvement, but its patient study concerns one patient, not a localization in five out of six patients. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“In our context, the perhaps most interesting observation in this experiment (see Carmena et al., 2003, for details) is how the monkey gradually begins to neglect his original arm, which is, after all, a part of his biological body.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step six: the PMIR -the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation
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- Supportedcites Carmena et al., 2003 source
The Results (page not specified) say that during brain control the monkeys initially moved their arms, then ceased doing so for periods of time when the movements proved unnecessary. The Discussion says visual feedback about the movement goal, rather than arm movement, became the main guiding signal. These passages support the citing sentence’s description of the monkeys gradually setting aside use of their biological arms. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“For as long as she remembers, she has experienced mental images of forearms (including fingers) and legs (with feet and first and fifth toes) -but, as the figure below shows, these were not as realistic as the content of her non-hallucinatory PSM.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Partly supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The passage labeled Abstract (page unavailable) says that A.Z. had experienced mental images of forearms, hands and fingers, and legs, feet and first and fifth toes for as long as she could remember. It reports vividness ratings for her phantom sensations, but does not say that the mental images were less realistic than her non-hallucinatory phantom sensations. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Functional magnetic resonance imaging of phantom hand movements showed no activation of the primary sensorimotor areas, but of the premotor and parietal cortex bilaterally.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000 source
The Abstract states the claim directly. The Results report bilateral premotor and posterior parietal activation during phantom finger movements, with no activation in the primary motor hand representation or postcentral gyrus. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“A recent case study by Brugger and colleagues introduced a vividness rating on a 7-point scale that showed highly consistent judgments across sessions for their subject AZ, a 44-year-old university-educated woman born without forearms and legs.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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- Supportedcites Brugger et al., 2000 source
The supplied passages report a structured interview using 7-point vividness ratings on three different days and describe the ratings as highly consistent across sessions. They also identify A.Z. as a 44-year-old university-educated woman born without forearms and legs. Both passages are labeled Abstract; no page numbers are provided. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“unlike the phantom-limb patients presented in example no. 1 and no. 2 (and like most ordinary patients), it is able to restructure its body-representation following the loss of a limb.It can learn.”
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“Starfish not only synthesizes an internal selfmodel, but also uses this self-model to generate intelligent behavior.”
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“part of its leg is removed, it adapts its self-model and generates alternative gaits -it learns to limp.”
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“This impression was less likely to occur in the ''object condition'' and in all of the asynchronous conditions.”
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“Does illusory self-localization to a position outside one's body mean that we have experimentally induced full-blown out-of-body experiences?No, this was only a first step.”
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“What does exist is the experience of being a self, as well as the diverse and constantly changing contents of self-consciousness.”
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“One of the ontological claims of this theory is that the self is not a substance in the technical philosophical sense of something that could maintain its existence on its own, even if the body, the brain, or everything else disappeared.”
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“As long as a phenomenal self exists, our consciousness is centered and bound to what philosophers call a ''firstperson perspective.''”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step one: what exactly is the problem?
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“The PSM is exactly that part of the mental selfmodel that is currently embedded in a highest order integrated structure, the global model of the world (Yates, 1975;Baars, 1988; for a detailed analysis of the criteria for distinguishing different degrees of consciousness, see Metzinger, 2003a, Chapter 3).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Yates, 1975 source
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- Not matchedcites Metzinger, 2003a, Chapter 3
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“This means that there is not only a true representational and functional description of the human self-model, but also a true neurobiological description -for instance in terms of being a widely distributed, complex activation pattern in the brain (Damasio, 1999).”
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- Not matchedcites Damasio, 1999
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“SMT is predominantly a representational theory of consciousness, because it analyzes conscious states as representational states and conscious contents as representational contents.”
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“It is not an individual entity or a mysterious thing in the metaphysical sense.”
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“It endows our phenomenal space with two particularly fascinating structural features: centeredness and perspectivalness.”
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“In other words, what probably distinguishes human beings from most other animals is that we not only have a subjectively experienced inner perspective, but can also consciously conceptualize ourselves as beings that have such an inner perspective.”
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“In our case, the self-model is an episodically active representational entity whose content is determined by the system's very own properties.”
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“Under SMT, this conscious experience of being a self is analyzed as the result of complex information-processing mechanisms and representational processes in the central nervous system.”
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“Whenever such a self-representation is needed to regulate the system's interactions with the environment, it is transiently activated -for instance in the morning, when we wake up.”
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“States inside this center of consciousness are experienced as my own states, because they are endowed with a sense of ownership that is prior to language or conceptual thought.”
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“According to SMT, what happens when you wake up in the morning -when you first come to yourself -is that the biological organism, which you are, boots up its PSM: it activates the conscious self-model.”
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“This is our first, preliminary answer: the system needs a coherent self-representation, a consistent internal model of itself as a whole.”
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“This is the decisive first step towards becoming an autonomous agent.”
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“The emergence of the bodily self-model is based on a subpersonal, automatic process of binding features together, of achieving coherence.”
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“It does so because you now need a conscious self-model in order to achieve sensorimotor integration, generate complex, flexible and adaptive behavior, and attend to and control your body as a whole.”
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“the self-model is a transient computational module that is episodically activated by the system in order to control its interactions with the environment.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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“Third, a self-model supports planning and fast learning processes in a number of different ways.”
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“If this global representational property is lost, this also changes the phenomenology and leads to the emergence of different neuropsychological deficits or altered states of consciousness.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step two: the self-model
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“It clearly makes a system more intelligent.”
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“a selfmodel allows a physical system to ''enslave'' its low-level dynamics with the help of a single, integrated, and internal whole-system model, thereby controlling and functionally ''owning'' it.”
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“Their four-legged machine uses actuation-sensation relationships to indirectly infer its own structure and then uses this self-model to generate forward locomotion.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bongard et al. (2006) source
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“In other words, certain parts of the self-model can be unconscious and functionally active at the same time.”
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“When part of its leg is removed, it adapts its self-model and generates alternative gaits -it learns to limp.”
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“In other cases, the subjective experience of being able to move and control the phantom limb is lost.”
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“First, a self-model can be entirely unconscious; i.e., it can frequently be seen as the product of an automatic ''bottom-up'' process of dynamical self-organization”
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“More precisely, a body-model has the function of integrating sensory impressions with motor output in a more intelligent and flexible manner.”
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“An active self-model then can be seen as a subpersonal functional state: a set of causal relations of varying complexity that may or may not be realized at a given point in time.”
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“These alternative configurations may result from preamputational paralysis following peripheral nerve damage or from prolonged loss of proprioceptive and kinesthetic ''feedback'' that could confirm the occurrence of movement.”
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“Such mutually coupled selfmodels, in turn, are the fundamental representational resource for taking another person's perspective, for empathy and the sense of responsibility, but also for metacognitive achievements like the development of a concept of self and a theory of mind”
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- Not matchedcites Bischof-Ko¨hler, 1996, 1989
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- Not matchedcites Gallese and Goldman, 1998
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Metzinger and Gallese, 2003 source
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“the subjectively experienced content of the phenomenal self is the representational content of a currently active, dynamic data structure in the system's central nervous system.”
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“''Oh, my,'' he said, clearly disappointed.''It's frozen again.I feel my right hand moving, but there's no movement in the phantom.''”
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- Not matchedcites Ramachandran 1998, 47f.
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- Not matchedcites Ramachandran and Rogers-Ramachandran, 1996
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“By now, it should be clear how these experimental findings illustrate the concept of a ''selfmodel'' that I introduced above; what is moving in this experiment is the PSM.”
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“The unconscious precursor of the PSM clearly was a new form of intelligence.”
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“the moment of ''waking up'' is exactly the moment in which this new instrument of intelligent informationprocessing emerges in your brain.”
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“Fourth, it is what I called a virtual model or ''virtual organ'' above, and one of its major functions consists in appropriating a body by using a global morphological model to control it as a whole.”
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“The transition from stump to phantom limb is seamless; subjectively, they are both part of one and the same bodily self, because the quality of ownership is distributed evenly among them.”
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“First, you do not have to be a living being in order to have a self-model.Non-biological SMT-systems are possible.”
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“Plastic and ever more complex self-models not only allowed somatosensory, perceptual, and cognitive functions to be continuously optimized, but also made the development of social cognition and cooperative behavior possible.”
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“Devinsky et al. (1989Devinsky et al. ( , p. 1080) ) have differentiated between autoscopy in the form of a complex hallucinatory perception of one's own body as being external with ''the subject's consciousness y usually perceived within his body'' and a second type, the classic OBE, which includes the feeling of leaving one's body and viewing it from another vantagepoint.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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“On the other hand, the OBE clearly is something like a phenomenological prototype.There is a common core to the phenomenon, as can be seen from the simple fact that many readers will already have heard about this type of experience in one way or another.”
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“The prevalence of OBEs ranges from 10% in the general population to 25% in students, with extremely high incidences in certain subpopulations like, to name just one example, 42% in schizophrenics (Blackmore, 1986; see also Blackmore, 1982; for an overview and further references see Alvarado, 1986Alvarado, , 2000, p. 18;, p. 18;Irwin, 1985, p. 174).”
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- Not matchedcites Blackmore, 1986
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“They frequently occur during extreme sports, for instance, in high-altitude climbers or marathon runners.”
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“This property, the sense of ownership, is not necessarily connected to these mental representations; i.e., it is not an intrinsic, but a relational property.”
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“The incidence of autoscopic seizures is possibly higher than previously recognized, and the authors found a 6.3% incidence in their patient population (Devinsky et al., 1989(Devinsky et al., , p. 1085)).”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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“Phenomenal selfhood corresponds to the existence of a single, coherent, and temporally stable self-model that constitutes the center of the representational state as whole.”
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“This may allow for a high degree of integrated processing, i.e., of ''mental clarity,'' by functionally encapsulating and thereby modularizing different functions like proprioception, attention, and cognition in order to preserve at least some of these functions in a life-threatening situation.”
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“At the same time, the feeling of ''ownership'' or phenomenal ''mineness'' is transferred to the rubber hand.The subject experiences the rubber hand as her own hand and feels the strokes in this hand.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step three: a representationalist analysis of the three target properties
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Botvinick and Cohen, 1998 source
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“There is a well-known class of phenomenal states in which the experiencing person undergoes the untranscendable and highly realistic conscious experience of leaving his or her physical body, usually in the form of an etheric double, and moving around outside of it.”
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“This structural feature of the global representational space leads to the episodic instantiation of a temporally extended and non-conceptual first-person perspective.It, too, can be lost.”
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“OBEs frequently occur spontaneously while falling asleep, but also following severe accidents or during surgical operations.”
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“The OBE may be an instance of transient functional modularization, of a ''purposeful,'' i.e., functionally adequate, separation of levels of representational content in the PSM.”
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“However, it would be false to assume that OBEs typically occur in people suffering from severe psychiatric disorders or neurological deficits.Quite the contrary, most OBE-reports come from ordinary people in everyday life situations.”
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“Instead, the concept of an OBE may turn out to be a cluster concept constituted by a whole range of diverging (and possibly overlapping) subsets of phenomenological constraints, each forming a set of sufficient, but not necessary, conditions.”
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“While only 2 out of 120 subjects reported an actual pain sensation, many subjects drew back their real hands, opened their eyes up widely in surprise, or laughed nervously (Armel andRamachandran, 2003, p. 1503).”
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“If the system is no longer able to integrate certain discrete representational contents into its self-model, it is lost.”
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“It could have been otherwise, in other phenomenological contexts, mineness disappears.Its distribution over the different elements of a conscious world-model can vary.”
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“Almost all necessary system-related information is still globally available, and higher order processes like attention and cognition can still operate on this information as it continues to be presented in an integrated manner, but its distribution across specific subregions of phenomenal space as a whole changes dramatically.”
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“If this analysis is correct, it should be possible, at least in principle, to operationalize this property by searching for an empirically testable metrics for the coherence of the self-model in the respective areas of interest.”
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“Only one of the two self-models is truly ''situated'' in the overall scene; only one of them is immediately embodied and virtually self-present in the sense of being integrated into an internally simulated behavioral space.”
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“It has long been known that OBEs not only occur in healthy subjects, but in certain clinical populations (e.g., epileptics) as well.”
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“This second body-model is the locus of the phenomenal self.It not only forms the ''true'' focus of one's phenomenal experience, but also functions as an integrated representation of all kinesthetic qualia and all non-visual forms of proprioception.”
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“The classic OBE contains two self-models, one visually represented from an external perspective and one forming the center of the phenomenal world from which the first-person perspective originates.”
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“Phenomenal representations appear to be exactly that set of representations for which we cannot distinguish between representational content and representational carrier on the level of subjective experience.”
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“The phenomenal model of the intentionality relation (PMIR), is just another naturally evolved virtual organ, just like the PSM.”
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“The selfmodel is the only representational structure that is anchored in a continuous source of internally generated input in the brain.Let us call this the ''persistent causal link hypothesis.''”
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“In other words, recent neuroscientific data clearly support the view that tools not only enable us to extend our reaching space.They show that any successful extension of behavioral space is also mirrored in the neural substrate of the body image in the brain.The brain constructs an ''internalized'' image of the tool by swiftly assimilating it into the existing body image as a whole.”
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“The intentionality relation is primarily an epistemic relation between subject and object.A mental state becomes a carrier of knowledge in virtue of being directed at something other than itself -like an arrow pointing from a person's mind to an object in the real or even just in a possible world.”
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“The interesting point, however, is that cognitive availability alone is not sufficient to dissolve the naı¨ve realism of phenomenal experience.You cannot simply ''think'' yourself out of your phenomenal model of reality by changing your opinions about this model: the transparency of phenomenal representations is cognitively impenetrable; here, phenomenal knowledge is not the same as conceptual/pro”
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“Phenomenal transparency in general, however, means that the representational character of the contents of conscious experience itself is not accessible to subjective experience.”
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“Phenomenologically, a transparent world-model gives rise to a reality.A transparent system-model gives rise to a self that is embedded in this reality.If there is also a transparent model of the transient and constantly changing relations between the perceiving and acting self and the objects and persons in this reality, this results in what I called a ''phenomenal first-person perspective'' above”
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“Now, there is not only a neurobiologically anchored core self, a self-presentation, but also a dynamic phenomenal simulation of the self as subject embedded in the world via constantly changing epistemic relations and agentive interactions.”
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“I believe that an additional necessary condition involved in generating full-blown out-of-body experiences and the complete transfer of selfhood to the illusory body is a transient episode of visual-vestibular disintegration.”
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“A genuine inner perspective arises if only and only if the system represents itself as currently interacting with the world to itself, and if it does not recognize this representation as a representation.”
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“Second, in a much larger explanatory time-window, there apparently was no evolutionary pressure on the respective parts of our functional architecture in the process of natural selection.”
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“Naı¨ve realism is not a belief or an intellectual attitude, but a feature of phenomenal experience itself.”
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“When a food pellet is dispensed beyond the reach of their hands and they skillfully use a rake to pull it closer, one can observe a change in their bodily self-model in the brain.In fact, it looks as if their conscious model of their hand had been expanded towards the tip of the tool.”
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“In standard situations, the consciously experienced first-person perspective is the content of a transparent PMIR.”
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“Many phenomenal representations are transparent because their content and its very existence appear to be fixed in all possible contexts.”
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“In standard phenomenological configurations, however, the entity that looks at the book in its hands is itself a form of transparent phenomenal content.And this is also true of the ''at''-ness inherent in this act of visual attention, of the relation that seems to connect subject and object.”
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“The virtual self-moving through the phenomenal world does not have a brain, a motor system, or sensory organs: certain parts of the environment appear directly in its mind; the perceptual process is experienced as effortless and immediate.”
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“First, in a very small time-window, the neural data structures in question are activated so quickly and reliably that the system is no longer able to recognize them as such, for instance due to the comparatively slow temporal resolution of metarepresentational functions.”
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“Clearly, the transition form biological to cultural evolution is intimately connected with the appearance of new and specific functional properties in the primate-PSM.”
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“For instance, opaque phenomenal representations arise when the information that their content is the result of an internal representational process suddenly becomes globally available.”
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“Whenever conscious experience arises (i.e., whenever a stable, integrated model of reality is activated), this continuous source of internal proprioceptive input also exists.”
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“For biological systems like us, naı¨ve realism was a functionally adequate background assumption.”
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“During successful tool-use, changes in specific neural networks in their brains take place -a finding that suggests that the tools are temporarily integrated into their body schema.”
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“But the core idea is as follows: a conscious human being is a system that is capable of dynamically co-representing the representational relation while representational acts are taking place, and the instrument it uses for this purpose is the PMIR.”
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“The conscious self-model is a virtual organ that allows us to own feedback loops, to initiate, sustain, and flexibly adapt control processes.”
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“This general principle should hold for our experimental setup as well as for OBEs in epileptic patients or ''gifted subjects'' in the healthy population.”
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“The PSM is the interface that the system uses to functionally appropriate its own hardware, to control its own low-level dynamics and to become autonomous.”
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“Basically, there are four different types of internally generated information that during conscious episodes, constitute a persistent functional link between the PSM and its bodily basis in the brain”
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“The self-model is the functional window through which the brain can interact with the body as a whole, and vice versa.”
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“A self-presentation is exactly that part of the phantom limb that remains conscious independently of the occurrence of movement.If this part is lost, you also lose the subjective experience of bodily presence -you turn into a ''disembodied being.''”
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“Second, at least according to certain modal intuitions, there appears to be no necessary connection between the fundamental functional and representational properties on the one hand and the phenomenal target properties of ''mineness,'' ''prereflexive/ preagentive selfhood,'' and ''perspectivalness'' on the other hand.”
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“Out-of-body experiences are characterized by disembodiment of the self to an extracorporeal location, an extracorporeal visuo-spatial perspective, and seeing of one's own body from this extracorporeal self-location.”
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“The weaker degree of phenomenological ''vividness'' or ''realness'' in her phantom limbs may reflect exactly the absence of permanent bottom-up stimulation that in normal situations is caused by existing physical limbs.”
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“My hypothesis is that the constant self-organizing activity of those regions of the bodily self that are independent of external input constitutes the functional center of phenomenal representational space.”
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“The phenomenal self is the part of this interface that the system uses to experience itself as a whole, to represent itself as a thinking self and an agent.”
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“The experience of selfhood is intimately related not only to the sense of ownership, but also to the experience of agency; it is not only a question of having a transparent self-model, but also of directedness, of being dynamically related to target objects and goal states.”
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“In standard situations, and as opposed to all other conscious model of aspects of reality, the human PSM is anchored in the brain through a continuous flow of self-generated input.There exists a persistent causal link into the physical body itself.”
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“Of course, the way we subjectively experience this subject-object relation is a simplified version of the actual processes -in a sense, it is a functionally adequate confabulation.”
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“The representational carrier of your conscious experience is a particular brain process.This process -that itself is in no way ''book-like''is not consciously experienced; it is transparent in the sense that phenomenologically, you look right through it.”
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“By logical necessity, a phenomenally transparent selfmodel will create the experience of being infinitely close to yourself.”
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“The classical RHI (example no.4) only tells us something about the target property of ''ownership'' (for body parts), but not about ''selfhood'' (ownership for the whole body).”
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“If many of these arrows are consciously available, represented by the brain on the functional level of global availability, this results in a temporally extended first-person perspective.”
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“Transparency, as defined in this context, is exclusively a property of conscious states.Unconscious states are neither transparent nor opaque.”
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“The contents of phenomenal experience not only create a world; they also create a present (see Metzinger, 2003a, Section 3.2.2).”
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“At least two spatial frames of reference must be functionally dissociated, in order to not only have a ''teleportation-OBE,'' but a realistic exit phenomenology, a gradual motion path through phenomenal space.”
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“A necessary precondition of expanding your space of action and your capabilities by using tools clearly seems to be the ability to integrate them into a preexisting self-model.”
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“The human self-model possesses an enduring causal link in the brain.It has parts, which in turn are realized by permanent forms of information processing on permanent forms of self-generated input and low-level autoregulation.”
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“The core of the self-model theory is that this is how the basic sense of selfhood arises and how a phenomenal self that is untranscendable for the respective system comes about.”
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“Truth and falsity, reality and illusion do not exist for biological information-processing systems at the developmental stage in question.”
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“Speaking of illusions presupposes someone having them.”
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“Subjectivity in an epistemic sense, an epistemic firstperson perspective is yet another step.”
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“It means repeatedly and continuously binding discrete events that have already been represented as such into temporal gestalts, into a consciously experienced moment.”
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“Very obviously, the PSM is an important part of a control hierarchy; it is a means to monitor certain critical aspects of the”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Additional information
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“the author of this chapter holds that subjective, first-person knowledge is precisely knowledge associated with a specific inner mode of presentation, namely as knowledge under a PMIR.”
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“experience and our subjective sense of presence are transparent as well.”
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“The realism of phenomenal experience arises because it represents a possibility -the best hypothesis there is at a given moment -as an untranscendable reality, or an actuality.”
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“as the referent of this representation never existed, this obviously is also a form of misrepresentation.”
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“On the level of phenomenology, as well as on the level of neurobiology, the conscious self is neither a form of knowledge nor an illusion.”
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“Psychology is self-model research.”
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“In this ongoing process on the subpersonal level there is no agent -no evil demon that could count as the creator of an illusion.”
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“Of course, the phenomenology of selfhood, of non-conceptual self-consciousness, is the most important precondition for this step, because it is the precondition for genuinely reflexive, conceptual self-consciousness.”
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“On the level of body-representation, selfpresentation is what AZ lacks in her phantom limbs, whereas self-representation is what she actually has”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step six: the PMIR -the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation
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“It is also maximally parsimonious, as it allows us to account for the emergence of self-consciousness without assuming the existence of a substantial self.”
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“It is the scientific discipline that focuses on the representational content, the functional profile and the neurobiological realization of the human self-model, including its evolutionary history and its necessary social correlates.”
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“So far, we only have a theory of the phenomenology of selfhood, not a theory of self-knowledge.”
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“Remarkably, after these animals started to control the actuator directly using their neuronal activity, their limbs eventually stopped moving, while the animals continued to control the actuator by generating proper modulations of their cortical neurons.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lebedev and Nicolelis, 2006 source
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“And this finally helps understand what it means to say that phenomenal space is a virtual space: its content is a possible reality.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step six: the PMIR -the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation
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“But something that is not an epistemic subject in a strong sense of conceptual/propositional knowledge is simply unable to confuse itself with anything else.”
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“Ultimately, and obviously, every single instance of the PSM/PMIR is identical with a specific time-slice in the continuous, dynamical self-organization of coherent activity taking place in an individual biological brain.”
§ Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples > Step six: the PMIR -the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation
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“Subjectivity in the epistemological sense can be naturalized as well -but only if we can tell a convincing evolutionary and neuroscientific story about how this representational architecture, this highly specific, indexical inner mode of presentation, could actually have developed in a selforganizing physical universe in the first place.”
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“the virtual character of both the self-model and the window of presence are not available on the level of subjective experience itself”
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“once the monkey has successfully embedded an internal representation of this new actuator into his conscious self-model, the representations of his old body parts lose certain functional properties, they transiently becomes less and less available for attentional processing and gradually recede from conscious experience.”
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The properties in question for the emergence of a conscious self are representational and functional brain properties.
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The human self-model will be predominantly a neurocomputational theory.
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The development and activation of the self-model computational module plays a role for the system, and the functional self-model possesses a true evolutionary description.
“The obvious fact that the development of our self-model has a long biological, evolutionary, and (a somewhat shorter) social history can now be accounted for by introducing a teleofunctionalist background assumption, as it is often called in philosophy of mind”
“The development and activation of this computational module plays a role for the system: the functional self-model possesses a true evolutionary description, i.e., it was a weapon that was invented and continuously optimized in the course of a ''cognitive arms race'' (Clark, 1989, p. 61).”
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First-person reports about the experiential content of the OBE state-class are accurate and sincere.
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The Starfish robot's internal model qualifies as a self-model in the sense of the self-model theory.
“Starfish not only synthesizes an internal selfmodel, but also uses this self-model to generate intelligent behavior.”
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There is a certain part of the human self-model that is characterized by a high degree of stimulus correlation and that depends exclusively on internally generated information.
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Some elementary building block of human tool-use abilities already existed in the brains of our ancestors.
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Monkeys have the conscious experience of ownership rather than only the unconscious mechanism.
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There is a physical flow of time.
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There is a subpersonal level of self-organization in the brain.
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“and that this remarkable capacity has developed quite late (phylo- and ontogenetically, Metzinger, 2003, 2008).”
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“Metzinger (2008) extends the traditional transparency notion by the claim that not (only) the carrier, but the ‘construction process’ of a phenomenally transparent mental representation is inaccessible to introspective attention”
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“This capacity enables us to reflect on ourselves and also on other selves, which is one of our essential distinctions from most (in its complexity, probably from all) other animals (cf. Metzinger, 2008).”
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“From the philosophical perspective it is a part of the general discussion on how one defines and experiences one’s self (Blanke & Metzinger, 2009; Metzinger, 2008).”
BackgroundFull-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood
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“If the integration processes leading to the phenomenal self-model[6, 8 ] are disturbed (if certain states are isolated from global control), then disturbances of bodily self-consciousness will appear and these might affect certain body parts, in addition to the entire body.”
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“The issue of how the brain represents the body has been approached extensively in philosophy (1, 2), cognitive neuroscience (3–5), robotics (6, 7), and virtual environments (8, 9).”
BackgroundMethodRecommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology
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Self-citationThe Senses of Agency and Ownership: A Review
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“For a concrete example of a how limb-ownership may arise according to the SMT, consider Ramachandran’s mirror box experiments with phantom limb patients (Ramachandran and Rogers-Ramachandran, 1996; Metzinger, 2007a; Ramachandran and Altschuler, 2009).”
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- Authors
- Metzinger, T.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Metzinger, Thomas
- ORCID
- Metzinger, Thomas
- Venue
- Progress in Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 168
- Pages
- 215-278
- ISSN
- 0079-6123 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1482860377
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 16.36
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- philarchive.org
- Locations
- Progress in brain research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- self-awareness, first-person perspective, consciousness, representationalism, intentionality
- MeSH terms
- Consciousness, Ego, Humans, Self Concept, Self Psychology, Intention, Empirical Research
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