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Be Aware of Thyself: Self-Regulative Agency as a Function of Consciousness| title | Be Aware of Thyself: Self-Regulative Agency as a Function of Consciousness |
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| start_date | 2025/10/23 |
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| schedule | 15h-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Beckett |
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| summary | It is commonly proposed that consciousness serves to facilitate flexible action control. Yet serious challenges confront attempts to establish this claim as it pertains to overt bodily behaviour. In this talk, I first examine some of these challenges, highlighting their implications for theorizing about consciousness and its functions. I then introduce a consistent but narrower proposal: consciousness allows for a distinctive kind of flexible mental agency, i.e., that which is directed at the control of one’s own cognitive processes. I lay out the core features of such self-regulative mental action and its primary modes of expression, distinguishing it from related capacities for metacognition and introspection. In the final part of the talk, I argue that enabling self-regulative agency is a key function of consciousness and discuss potential advantages of this proposal over some competing accounts. |
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| responsibles | NC |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/10/14 10:45 UTC |
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