The conscious self: ontology, epistemology and the mirror quest.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior October 1, 2005 Alexei V Samsonovich, Giorgio A Ascoli
Here we address the notion of the self as the subject of experience, in contrast with its other popular meanings of a state of self-awareness, a body image, or a narrative center. In this perspective, the main player is not consciousness per se (the famous "hard problem"), but its subject. We start by showing that the self as the subject of immediate self-awareness cannot be conceived as an...