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| Privileged Access, philosophy of mind: what is meant here is the access a human subject has to his own inner states. It is debatable whether there is any privileged access at all. Counter-arguments are put forward by authors who assume that one can only grasp one’s feelings in a public language, that is, with concepts learned in the external world. See also introspection, foreign psychological, private language._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Chris Frith on Privileged Access - Dictionary of Arguments
I 206 Privileged access/Frith: for example, I can never know what force you use while pressing the button. >Other minds. Origin: does this mean that I can only experience myself as an actor, but never as another? >Actions, >Authorship. I 207 No, I connect cause and effect even if another person acts. >Cause, >Effect. Solution: the feeling of the origin is based on a combination of cause and effect by means of prediction. >Prediction. Privileged access: some emotions are suppressed when we perform an action ourselves, e.g. we cannot tickle ourselves. N.B.: if another person moves our arm, we are particularly aware of the internal signals. If we ourselves are actors, these signals are suppressed. That is, that we perceive ourselves in the same way as we perceive others as actors: we notice the relationship between actions and effects._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Frith I Chris Frith Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Hoboken/NJ 2007 German Edition: Wie unser Gehirn die Welt erschafft Heidelberg 2013 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28