Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0066666

Zusammenfassung

Human new-borns explore and actively learn what kind of bodily agent they are, thus gaining a sense of "embodied selfhood". Certain neurological or psychiatric disorders show that this sense, despite its fundamental nature, may become distorted. Presently, new challenges for the embodied self are arising through the potential (con)fusion of physical and virtual realities. These challenges cannot yet be tackled; for although neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy largely agree that embodied selfhood is created by the brain, the mechanisms of this creative process remain unknown. To re...