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thought insertion
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 11 facts
claimIn cases of thought insertion, which is a symptom of schizophrenia, subjects report that they are aware of the thoughts of other people or objects entering their own minds.
claimSimon Mullins and Sean A. Spence conducted a literature review and conceptual analysis of thought insertion in their 2003 article 'Re-examining Thought Insertion: Semi-Structured Literature Review and Conceptual Analysis' published in The British Journal of Psychiatry.
referenceLisa Bortolotti and Matthew Broome published 'A Role for Ownership and Authorship in the Analysis of Thought Insertion' in the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences in 2009, volume 8, issue 2, pages 205–224.
claimA common philosophical response to the problem of thought insertion involves distinguishing between the sense of ownership and the sense of agency, and claiming that subjects of thought insertion lack the sense of agency while retaining the sense of ownership.
claimThe standard view of thought insertion and anarchic hand syndrome posits that these conditions can be explained by a lack of a sense of agency, while the sense of ownership remains intact because the subject feels the thought or action is taking place within their own mind.
claimAnnalisa Coliva argues in her 2002 paper 'Thought Insertion and Immunity to Error through Misidentification' that the phenomenon of thought insertion relates to immunity to error through misidentification.
claimElisabeth Pacherie and Jean-Remy Martin explored the relationship between thought insertion, ownership, and context-integration in their 2013 article 'Out of Nowhere: Thought Insertion, Ownership and Context-Integration'.
claimSome philosophers argue that if subjects experiencing thought insertion are actually aware of their own thoughts, then either the sense of ownership is not a necessary feature of conscious experience, or the sense of ownership does not exist at all.
referenceAlexandre Billon published the article 'Does Consciousness Entail Subjectivity? The Puzzle of Thought Insertion' in the journal Philosophical Psychology in 2013, volume 26, issue 2, pages 291–314.
claimPhenomena such as thought insertion, anarchic hand, alien limb, anonymous memory, and anonymous vision involve subjects who are aware of their own conscious states, actions, or body parts, but without being aware of them as their own.
claimSome critics argue that subjects of thought insertion may retain a sense of location rather than a sense of ownership, meaning they accept that the inserted thought occurs within the boundary of their own mind even while denying that they are the authors of those thoughts.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimResearchers study thought insertion in schizophrenia to understand the nature of experiencing one's thoughts as one's own.