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Bodies and Selves: Autoscopy, Out-of-Body Experiences, Mind-Wandering and Early Modern Consciousness

“…15 For philosopher Thomas Metzinger, the OBE is a " neuro phenomenological archetype" that can be analyzed "as a special form of mental self-representation or deviant self-modeling," and which "may actually be the folk-phenomenological ancestor of the soul, and of the philosophical proto-concept of mind." 16 Taking phenomenology seriously, he suggests, will complement "an empirically grounded theory of conscious experience" by helping to understand "the neurofunctional and neurophenomenological underpinnings of the persisting intuition that such a theory leaves out something important." 17 As this range of scholarly interest reveals, OBEs and other autoscopic phenomena, although rare, are useful for thinking about the nature of the self generally (including the brain's role in constructing it), and about the relationship between the body and consciousness in psychological and phenomenological experiences of selfhood.…”