Delusions: between Phenomenology and Prediction. Introduction
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A few years ago (while researching embodied cognition) I focused for some time on disorders of experience, which affect representation or beliefs regarding one’s own body. One of the most fascinating and dramatic disorders was somatoparaphrenia (sometimes also astomatognosia) (Feinberg 2002). This disorder is when the patient believes that, for example, his hand is his aunt’s or wife’s hand. Or he believes it to be an inanimate object or a pet.
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