The paradox of self-consciousness, as termed by José Luis Bermúdez, refers to the circularity of attempting to explain self-consciousness through the use of the first-person pronoun 'I', because the ability to use 'I' already presupposes the very notion of self-consciousness one is trying to explain.

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  Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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• Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press via serper

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• self-consciousness concept
• first-person pronoun 'I' concept