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Chapter 9 - The Ultimate Illusion

Understanding Embodiment and the Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Femi Oyebode
Femi Oyebode
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University of Birmingham
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This final chapter returns to the issues that the cognitive neuroscience of autoscopy raise for the philosophy of mind. The neuroscience project is to develop a detailed understanding and explanation of the relation between the physical and mental. I appeal to the works of Paul Schilder, Antonio Damasio, and Mohed Constandi to forge a tentative way of understanding how multiple perceptual modalities such as proprioception, vision, touch, and somatic perception are integrated to form a unified sense of the self and the body.

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embodimentCartesian dualismcognitive sciencePaul Schilderbody imagebody schemaAntonio Damasio
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Doppelgänger
Analysing ‘Doubles' across Antiquity, Fiction, Psychopathology, and Neuroscience
 , pp. 152 - 163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • The Ultimate Illusion
  • Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Doppelgänger
  • Online publication: 13 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305730.009
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  • The Ultimate Illusion
  • Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Doppelgänger
  • Online publication: 13 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305730.009
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  • The Ultimate Illusion
  • Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Doppelgänger
  • Online publication: 13 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305730.009
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