The framework of first-, second-, and third-order embodiment (1-3E; Metzinger, 2014) was developed for exploring how phenomenal properties are physically and computationally grounded. Metzinger’s goal for 1-3E is to show how the experience of being a self (i.e., phenomenal selfhood) is generated within an embodied system and thus to embed his self-model theory (Metzinger, 2004) in the context o...

Among males, violence prevention work aims to lessen the likelihood of boys and men using violence. Strategies of violence prevention undermine the beliefs, values and discourses which support violence, challenge the patriarchal power relations which promote and are maintained by violence, and promote alternative constructions of masculinity, gender and selfhood which foster non-violence and ge...

The present paper is an essay in miniature proposing to illuminate on the debate about cultural identity of India, place religion, caste, class and gender it, initiated by Rabindranath Tagore his novel ‘Gora’ (1909) at beginning twentieth century. Situated within larger conflict between modernisation Hindu tradition – inevitable a British-occupied India further complicated question freedom, gen...

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Children’s socialization environments reflect cultural models of care giving that become evident in parental beliefs and behavior. Cultural models of the self-concept have also been claimed to reveal themselves in the conversational style of the caregiver. While previous studies have focused on cross-cultural differences in the contents of infant-directed speech, the present study follows a soc...

Lyra presents a methodologically sophisticated analysis of the ontogenetic course of microgenetic processes in infant-caretaker interaction. The article raises important issues concerning the relationship between microgenesis and ontogenesis. Lyra’s argument that the microgenetic phase of abbreviated dialogue constitutes a seed of, or precursor to, the semiotic function is convincing. I questio...