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  1. 1. The Mereological Self : A Multisensory Description of Self-Plasticity

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Författare :Patrick Fasthén; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Mereology; multisensory description; self-plasticity; identity; ownership; embodiment; perspective; agency;

    Sammanfattning : What am “I”? To what does the word “I” refer? The Self is a concept that feels intuitively obvious to us, but is nevertheless elusive to describe. Against a backdrop of theoretical speculation, this essay presents a basic exposition of the Self with the aid of recent advances in cognitive neuroscience to address one of its most confounding problems: How does the brain sustain the Self – our sense of bodily identity? What informs the question then is dealt with by providing a frame of reference based on the philosophical theory of mereology to contain the analysis (i. LÄS MER