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Anil Seth on the Real Problem of Consciousness

Philosophy Bites

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The Rubber Hand Illusion

i think it is a fundamentally important aspect of consciousness. When you think about these more basic aspects of self hood, they seem to be quite amenable to explanation in terms of predictive mechanisms. One explanation for this is that the brain is continuously making its best guess about the causes of self related sensory signals. If i experience an action as my own, as voluntary, as intentional, all that can be unpacked in terms of a match twen its predicted sensory consequences and the outgoing, or the affront activity from the motor cortex. And when those don't match up, we might experience actions as involuntary. For instance, in skitzoprenia, where people have delusions of intention and

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