Daniel C Mograbi, Simon Hall, Beatriz Arantes, Jonathan Huntley
Self-awareness, the ability to take oneself as the object of awareness, has been an enigma for our species, with different answers to this question being provided by religion, philosophy, and, more recently, science. The current review aims to discuss the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying self-awareness. The multidimensional nature of self-awareness will be explored, suggesting how it can be thought of as an emergent property observed in different cognitive complexity levels, within a predictive coding approach...
December 3, 2023: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science