J. Mensch, Selfhood and appearing

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

Mensch-Computer-Interkation = Mensch-Mensch-Kommunikation? oder: Unvollständiges zu der Eigen-Artigkeit der NL-MCI

1. Kommunikation, ob sie gelingt oder mißlingt, ist handlungstheoretisch begründet, d. h. es geht um ein Zusammenund Miteinander-Handeln, eine soziale Interaktion zur Erreichung eines Ziels, das ein Interaktionspartner setzt, der andere akzeptiert oder nicht, das zwischen den Interaktionspartnern ausgehandelt wird. Kommunikation ist Handlungsbeeinflussung2 5. Anhand dieser 'naiven' Theorie setz...

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...

Technology, selfhood and physical disability.

Much has been written in recent times of the interface between technologies and the human body. The vast majority of this literature, however, focuses on a body that is assumed to be free of physical disability. This article seeks to address this lacuna by presenting findings from an exploratory study using in-depth interviews with fifteen people with physical disabilities living in the Austral...

Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood.

We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that despite these achievements, central aspects have remained unexplored, namely, global aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Researchers investigated central representations of body parts and actions involving these, but neglected the global and unitary character of self-consciousness, the 'I' of experience...