Bodily in the world

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titleBodily in the world
start_date2007/05/22
schedule10h30
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location_infosalle F 106
detailssuite à 11h45
summaryEmpirical and experiential investigations allow the distinction between observational and non-observational forms of subjective bodily experiences. From a first-person perspective, the biological body can be (1) an "opaque body" taken as an intentional object of observational consciousness, (2) a "performative body" pre-reflectively experienced as a subject/agent, (3) a "transparent body" pre-reflectively experienced as the bodily mode of givenness of objects in the external world, or (4) an "invisible body" absent from experience. To underline their core characteristics, I will present threefold variations of these different forms of bodily experiences, comparing expert, pathological and normal cases. I will then argue that a fine-grained description of these states of consciousness at the phenomenological level opens new ways to experiment on the self-consciousness without relying on subjective verbal reports about reflective states. I will review previous empirical results suggesting a role of sensori-motor integrative processes in anchoring pre-reflective bodily self-consciousness.
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