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(2005) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (3).
In this paper we provide an account of the structural underpinnings of self-awareness. We offer both an abstract, logical account – by way of suggestions for how to build a genuinely self-referring artificial agent – and a biological account, via a discussion of the role of somatoception in supporting and structuring self-awareness more generally. Central to the account is a discussion of the necessary motivational properties of self-representing mental tokens, in light of which we offer a novel definition of self-representation. We also discuss the role of such tokens in organizing self-specifying information, which leads to a naturalized restatement of the guarantee that introspective awareness is immune to error due to mis-identification of the subject.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11097-005-4068-0
Full citation:
Anderson, M. L. , Perlis, D. (2005). The roots of self-awareness. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (3), pp. 297-333.
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