perception ↔ self-consciousness

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Perception is identified as a fundamental source of self-specifying information that contributes to the development and maintenance of self-consciousness, as noted in [1], [2], and [3].

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Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press 3 facts

claimThe perspective that self-consciousness relies on specific sources of information (introspection, perception, spatial representation, memory, and proprioception) bridges the gap between philosophical discussions and contemporary cognitive science, while suggesting that self-consciousness exists in degrees and is more widely distributed than previously thought.

referenceShoemaker (1968), Evans (1982), and Bermúdez (1998) identify five key sources of information that are essential to self-consciousness: the deliverances of introspection, self-locating and self-specifying information in perception, ways of representing one's position in space, autobiographical memories, and information about the body through proprioception and bodily sensations.

referenceCognitive scientists have explored dimensions of self-consciousness including how perception yields self-specifying information, self-recognition in infants and animals, the mechanisms and phenomenology of bodily awareness, and the interdependence of self-consciousness and consciousness of others in theory of mind.