Essays about: "Patrick Fasthén"
Found 3 essays containing the words Patrick Fasthén.
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1. The Virtual Self : Sensory-Motor Plasticity of Virtual Body-Ownership
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : The distinction between the sense of body-ownership and the sense of agency has attracted considerable empirical and theoretical interest lately. However, the respective contributions of multisensory and sensorimotor integration to these two varieties of body experience are still the subject of ongoing research. READ MORE
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2. The Mereological Self : A Multisensory Description of Self-Plasticity
University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och informationAbstract : What am “I”? To what does the word “I” refer? The Self is a concept that feels intuitively obvious to us, but is nevertheless elusive to describe. Against a backdrop of theoretical speculation, this essay presents a basic exposition of the Self with the aid of recent advances in cognitive neuroscience to address one of its most confounding problems: How does the brain sustain the Self – our sense of bodily identity? What informs the question then is dealt with by providing a frame of reference based on the philosophical theory of mereology to contain the analysis (i. READ MORE
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3. Diachronic Identity : Temporal Plasticity of Functional Organisms
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för kommunikation och informationAbstract : Eliminative materialism is a view that has been sparsely acknowledged and often overlooked when it comes to providing us with a criterion of what it takes for you and me to persist over time. This owes much to its counterintuitive belief in the non-existence of folk-psychological notions, such as persons. READ MORE
