Bodily Awareness and Self‐Consciousness

We are embodied, and we are aware of our bodies „from the inside‟ through different forms of bodily awareness. But what is the relation between these two facts? Are these forms of bodily awareness types of self-consciousness, on a par, say, with introspection? In this paper I argue that bodily awareness is a basic form of self-consciousness, through which perceiving agents are directly conscious of the bodily self.

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