Objectives: Two important aspects of self-consciousness are the sense of one’s own body (socalled ‘body-ownership’) and the sense that one controls one’s own bodily actions (agency). The exact relation between these has been the focus of much speculation, but remains unclear. We distinguish two models of their relation. On an ‘additive’ model, agency and body-ownership are strongly related, bec...

This paper introduces ‘The Self Aware Image’, a creative research project that is part of the Virtual Laboratory for Envisioning Connections (vLEC) consortium. The paper will outline the rationale of the project and locate it within wider debates about the relationship between art, consciousness and technology. The notion of the ‘self-aware image’ is touched on as an art historical trope, and t...

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Constructivism undermines realism by arguing that experience is mediated by concepts, and that there is no direct way to examine those aspects of objects that belong to them independently of our conceptualizations; perception is theory-laden. To defend realism one has to show first that perception relates us directly with the world without any intermediary conceptual framework. The result of th...

The experiential and body-involving nature of apparel makes consumers’ product evaluation in the virtual shopping environment a lasting problem. With the newly emerging online pictorial reviews, consumers are more informed about the product. However, how pictorial reviews would influence consumers’ psychological evaluation process and their purchase intention remains unclear. Drawing on the Sel...

Mirror Self-Recognition is a well accepted test to identify whether an animal is with self-consciousness. Mirror neuron system is believed to be one of the most important biological foundation for Mirror Self-Recognition. Inspired by the biological mirror neuron system of the mammalian brain, we propose a Brain-inspired Robot Mirror Neuron System Model (Robot-MNS-Model) and we apply it to human...

The origin and development of consciousness is poorly understood. Although it is clearly a naturalistic phenomenon evolved through Darwinian evolution, explaining it in terms of physicochemical, neural, or symbolic mechanisms remains elusive. Here I propose that two steps had to be taken in its evolution. First, living systems evolved an intrinsic goal-directedness by internalizing Darwinian fi...

This paper presents the hypothesis that concept possession is sufficient and necessary for self-consciousness. If this is true it provides a yardstick for gauging the validity of different research paradigms in which claims for self-consciousness in animals or human infants are made: a convincing demonstration of concept possession in a research subject, such as a display of inferential reasoni...

Vasily Sesemann’s manuscript Self-Knowledge, Self-Consciousness and Objectification explores the relationship of consciousness with self-consciousness subconscious, as well various forms objectification consciousness. This can be attributed to a group texts that discuss origin metaphysical between matter spirit. Sesemann studied consciousness, describing it an intentional experience rejecting i...