Functional fragmentation of the minimal self: an in-depth explanation of self-individuation
Synthese May 4, 2026 Zixuan Liu
The minimal self hypothesis holds that the inherent sense of “for-me-ness” or “mineness” in every plain conscious experience provides a basic solution to the problem of self-individuation: namely, how to establish intrasubjective unity and intersubjective boundary. I advance two objections to this account. First, the minimal self hypothesis fails to present the most parsimonious conception of...