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Phenomenal transparency and cognitive self-reference
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“and that this remarkable capacity has developed quite late (phylo- and ontogenetically, Metzinger, 2003, 2008).”
From 'Seeing the Dark': Grounding Phenomenal Transparency and Opacity in Precision Estimation for Active Inference (2018) · cites this paper as Metzinger, 2003
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“which implies that phenomenal transparency-opacity is ‘cognitively impenetrable’”
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“In more dramatic cases, inference about precision may itself be compromised and produce abnormal experiences; e.g., in derealization or depersonalization (cf. Metzinger, 2003; Seth et al., 2012) or altered states of consciousness (Millière, 2017).”
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“a phenomenal self as subject appears exactly when the organism possesses a phenomenal model of the intentionality relation [6,7,9,21,22]”
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“Because this conscious body model is phenomenally transparent because it cannot introspectively be recognized as a model, we fully identify with its representational content and are consciously present as bodily selves (self-identification) [6,7,23,24].”
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“In particular, there seems to be a continuum between transparency and opacity, which determines how realistically the content of a body representation is experienced and how strongly the dimension of self-identification is expressed [6,7].”
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- Authors
- Metzinger, T.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Metzinger, Thomas
- ORCID
- Metzinger, Thomas
- Venue
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 353-393
- ISSN
- 1568-7759 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8676
- OpenAlex
- W2142672241
- Semantic Scholar
- 64df353577b671dc812baa22548d381888587871
- Cited by
- 162
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- 77
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- FWCI
- 3.23
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- phenomenal transparency, self-reflection, representationalism, first-person perspective, self-model, naturalism
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