The First-Person Perspective Is Not a Defining Feature of Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dylan Ludwig (0000-0002-7019-693X, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 435-446 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217321000196 |
| OpenAlex | W4226152122 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Philosophers and scientists generally assume that consciousness is characterized by a ‘first-person perspective.’ On one interpretation of this claim, experiences are defined, at least in part, by representations that encode a subject-centred ‘point of view.’ But claims about the defining features of consciousness must be sensitive to the possibility of dissociation: if a neurobiological structure or psychological function is neither necessary nor sufficient for consciousness, it cannot be a defining feature in any robust sense. I appeal to research on unconscious emotion, visually guided action, perceptual constancy, and psychiatric disorder to argue that first-personal representations dissociate from conscious experience
Action (physics) · Appeal · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Dissociation (chemistry) · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Subject (documents) · Unconscious mind · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Subjective Consciousness
Solitary Confinement
Origins of Objectivity
Being No One
Conscious and unconscious emotional learning in the human amygdala
Consciousness cannot be separated from function
On a confusion about a function of consciousness
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness
Two visual systems re-viewed
Schizophrenia, Consciousness, and the Self
Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing
Separate visual pathways for perception and action
Neural correlates of consciousness
Consciousness and Experience
Understanding Consciousness
Defining consciousness
Are there unconscious perceptual processes
Solitary Confinement
Recovering a sense of self in schizophrenia
Out of nowhere
Valence is a basic building block of emotional life
Reconciling Cognitive and Perceptual Theories of Emotion
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
Valence and Value
On the primacy of cognition
The Rediscovery of the Mind
Upheavals of Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |