Symposium - The sense of self: One body, multiple mechanisms
The sense of bodily self is both obvious and mysterious. It is obvious that we have only one body, despite multiple sources of bodily information: touch, body position, cardiac and intestinal information, and others. How this multiple information is attributed to a single source, and why the bodily sense of self is sometimes disrupted, remains a mystery.
Numerous models have been proposed for the question of the bodily self, from different perspectives and disciplines, such as philosophy, experimental psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry. The aim of the symposium is to bring together specialists in these complementary approaches to discuss the most recent models and data, as well as convergences and divergences.
This international symposium is co-organised by Anne Giersch (2024 USIAS Fellow). Professor Sohee Park (USIAS visiting scholar) will give a talk entitled “Schizophrenia in the flesh”.
