The Naive Topology of the Conscious Subject

Madden, Rory

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“…We can try and imagine a creature, call her Scatty, whose parts comprise a disintegrated whole. Scatty's body-parts do not form a whole in the same sense that we would say the front and back of a sphere form a whole (Madden, 2015), but rather in the sense that the top and bottom of a bikini are part of the same bikini. Imagine, for instance, that Scatty's body consists only of two detached hands capable of independent movement, like the character Thing from the The Adamms Family, but in duplicate.…”

Section: Local and Global Body Schematamentioning

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What is the body schema?

Vignemont¹,

Pitron²,

Alsmith³

2021

Body Schema and Body Image

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The body schema is commonly defined as the representation of a body for action. But what do we mean exactly by that? What makes the body schema so special? The type of information that it represents? The way this information is represented? Or the function of the representation? And is there more than one type of body schema? There is a sense indeed in which the term ‘body schema’ is ambiguous, in that it functions as a general term that groups together various body representations intervening at different stages in motor control, representing short- or long-term properties, used for positive or negative affordances. In addition, one might want to distinguish between local body schemata, which represent body parts, and a global body schema, which represents the body as a whole. But is this latter holistic representation really necessary? Here this chapter will present a detailed characterization of the manifold of representational processes involved in what we commonly refer to as the body schema, as well as the key mechanisms that contribute to their construal.

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Section: Local and Global Body Schematamentioning

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What is the body schema?

Vignemont¹,

Pitron²,

Alsmith³

2021

Body Schema and Body Image

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“…For intriguing and probing discussion of something like this flipped argument and related issues, see Madden (MS), especially pp. 38–40.…”

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Animalism

Bailey

2015

Philosophy Compass

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Among your closest associates is a certain human animala living, breathing, organism. You see it when you look in the mirror ( go ahead; take a look). When it is sick, you don't feel too well. Where it goes, you go. And, one thinks, where you go, it must follow. Indeed, you can make it move through sheer force of will. You bear, in short, an important and intimate relation to this, your animal. So too rest of us with our animals. Animalism says that this relation is nothing short of identity. According to animalists, we do not only coincide with or constitute or inhabit or otherwise hang out with these close associates, our animals: we are them. In this article, I offer an opinionated take on what animalism might be and situate it against contemporary rivals. Then, I outline a simple case for animalism. Finally, I sketch nonstandard routes for animalists to take in light of standard challenges. My goal in all of this is to open up some new avenues of animalist thinking.868 Animalism

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Could there be scattered subjects of consciousness?

Chomanski

2018

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The Naive Topology of the Conscious Subject

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

What is the body schema?

What is the body schema?

Animalism

Could there be scattered subjects of consciousness?

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