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Bodily awareness is considered a fundamental mechanism for perceiving the self, as it provides exclusive information about the self [1] and serves as a form of perceptual experience that reveals the self [2]. Furthermore, bodily awareness involves perceiving one's body as oneself, where bodily sensations are experienced as properties of the self [3].
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimBill Brewer (1995) argues that bodily awareness involves perceiving one's body as oneself because bodily sensations are perceived as properties of oneself and as located properties of the body.
claimP.F. Strawson (1966), Evans (1982), Sutton Morris (1982), Ayers (1991), Brewer (1995), Cassam (1995, 1997), and Bermúdez (1998, 2011) maintain that even if introspection does not reveal the self as an object, bodily awareness is a form of perceptual experience that does reveal the self.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu 1 fact
claimBodily awareness, including proprioception and kinesthesis, provides object awareness of the self by providing information exclusively about the self.