Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness &amp; Projective Geometry

Williford, Kenneth; Bennequin, Daniel; Rudrauf, David

doi:10.1007/s13164-022-00638-w

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“…Interestingly, although much research still needs to be done on this topic, it also allows us to make sense of empirical distinctions such as L1PT and L2PT. Indeed, projective geometry is imbued with fundamental properties of reciprocity, related to projective duality, so that it is effectively immediate for an agent representing information within a projective space to understand relations of incidence in a pre-reflective manner [68]; this is consistent with LPT1. Likewise, the explicit action of the projective group on the space, which requires controlled projective spatial transformations, precisely corresponds to operations subsumed by the notion of LPT2.…”

Section: Projective Geometry At the Core Of Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…We hold that it is this geometry that allows us to understand and model the phenomenology and functions of consciousness and to make better sense of how they are bound together within an integrated whole structured as a subjective perspective and imbued with capacities for perspective taking. This hypothesis is at the basis of our Projective Consciousness Model (PCM) [25,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69] (see also [70]).…”

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“…Projective geometry is the geometry of perspectives and points of view (see [68] for a presentation of projective geometry in a relevant context). It extends affine geometry with points at infinity, where all "parallel" lines meet, yielding a projective space.…”

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“…Although reflective deliberation is a central aspect of conscious processing for adaptation to the world (e.g., [68,111]), one outstanding issue concerning theories of consciousness is to account for pre-reflective self-consciousness (PRSC), i.e., the property of consciousness to be pre-reflectively conscious of itself. This is both a highly debated and often unsatisfactorily posed topic in the field.…”

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The Projective Consciousness Model: Projective Geometry at the Core of Consciousness and the Integration of Perception, Imagination, Motivation, Emotion, Social Cognition and Action

Rudrauf,

Sergeant-Perthuis,

Tisserand

et al. 2023

Brain Sciences

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Consciousness has been described as acting as a global workspace that integrates perception, imagination, emotion and action programming for adaptive decision making. The mechanisms of this workspace and their relationships to the phenomenology of consciousness need to be further specified. Much research in this area has focused on the neural correlates of consciousness, but, arguably, computational modeling can better be used toward this aim. According to the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), consciousness is structured as a viewpoint-organized, internal space, relying on 3D projective geometry and governed by the action of the Projective Group as part of a process of active inference. The geometry induces a group-structured subjective perspective on an encoded world model, enabling adaptive perspective taking in agents. Here, we review and discuss the PCM. We emphasize the role of projective mechanisms in perception and the appraisal of affective and epistemic values as tied to the motivation of action, under an optimization process of Free Energy minimization, or more generally stochastic optimal control. We discuss how these mechanisms enable us to model and simulate group-structured drives in the context of social cognition and to understand the mechanisms underpinning empathy, emotion expression and regulation, and approach–avoidance behaviors. We review previous results, drawing on applications in robotics and virtual humans. We briefly discuss future axes of research relating to applications of the model to simulation- and model-based behavioral science, geometrically structured artificial neural networks, the relevance of the approach for explainable AI and human–machine interactions, and the study of the neural correlates of consciousness.

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Section: Projective Geometry At the Core Of Consciousnessmentioning

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The Projective Consciousness Model: Projective Geometry at the Core of Consciousness and the Integration of Perception, Imagination, Motivation, Emotion, Social Cognition and Action

Rudrauf,

Sergeant-Perthuis,

Tisserand

et al. 2023

Brain Sciences

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“…Some recent articles (e.g. Brecher & Puno, 2010;Rogers, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Williford, et al, 2022;Goldstein, 2007;Rossing & Chiaverina, 2019;Wickelgren, 2012, see also Tyler, 2022;Gogel & Mershon, 1968) refer to other distorted rooms whose shapes are different from the shape of the original Ames room as "Ames rooms" (Figures 1b-1d). For clarity, these recent "Ames rooms" are referred to as pseudo-Ames rooms in this manuscript.…”

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An Ames room and its pseudo-copy

Koshmanova,

Dvoeglazova,

Myrov

et al. 2024

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Shaping Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness

Pacholik-Żuromska

Preyer

2023

J. AI. Consci.

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The aim of this paper is to address the problem of pre-reflective self-consciousness in the context of the contemporary computational approaches to the mind. These standpoints try to grasp consciousness in the language of mathematics and geometry, hoping for its more precise description. As a counterbalance to such theories, Sartre’s abiding insight (pre-reflective consciousness) and Henrich’s critique of the modern philosophy of reflection on rationalism and empiricism are receiving an increasing attention. In our opinion, the conceptions that consider pre-reflective self-consciousness as relational fall into a paradox. We provide an argumentation that such approaches are missing the basic problem of pre-reflective consciousness, namely the self-determination of non-relational mental states. Therefore, following the New Heidelberg’s argumentation, we propose another approach which returns to the concept of consciousness as based on irrelational intrinsic quality of experience.

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Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness & Projective Geometry

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

The Projective Consciousness Model: Projective Geometry at the Core of Consciousness and the Integration of Perception, Imagination, Motivation, Emotion, Social Cognition and Action

The Projective Consciousness Model: Projective Geometry at the Core of Consciousness and the Integration of Perception, Imagination, Motivation, Emotion, Social Cognition and Action

An Ames room and its pseudo-copy

Shaping Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness

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