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Published in: AI & SOCIETY 1/2016

06-11-2014 | Original Article

Revisiting the self: a sine qua non for understanding embodiment

Author: V. Hari Narayanan

Published in: AI & SOCIETY | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

A major stumbling block in understanding the full significance of embodiment is the reflexive self-conception characterised by free-floating nature. The paper, in the initial sections, looks into the sensory motor approach to phenomenal consciousness and the approach to the study of vision where the world is treated as an external memory. Subsequently, the paper argues that the difficulty in exploring the sensory motor approach to phenomenal consciousness stems from the free-floating self-conception humans is endowed with. The assumption that experiences are internal can make us closed to the role external factors play in constituting experience.  Accordingly, a revision in the self-conception carries the possibility of conceptualising experience in a different manner.
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Metadata
Title
Revisiting the self: a sine qua non for understanding embodiment
Author
V. Hari Narayanan
Publication date
06-11-2014
Publisher
Springer London
Published in
AI & SOCIETY / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-014-0574-3

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