COGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anorexia Nervosa, Phantom Limb, Somatoparaphrenia
18 Oct 2018
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Week 8 disorders of the self: what is the self, we all i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)tl(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) idea (cid:449)hat this (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:271)ut it"s a diffi(cid:272)ult (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) to a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)all(cid:455) Philosophers have argued for millennia how best to understand this: self as an entity that is distinct from everything else in environment, two key aspects: Experience of influencing the world (sense of agency) Experience of having a distinct physical body (sense of body ownership) Disorders of the self: our sense of self can be disturbed in many. Phantom limbs: this topic is about disorders of the self and experimental paradigms, sense of agency (dr vince polito) and body self-perception (dr regine zopf, two important questions: Causes of flow: for flow to occur the demands of a situation must just e(cid:454)(cid:272)eed a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s skill. Characteristics of flow: common in expertise across domains, complex, well trained actions are experienced as subjectively effortless, strong feelings of intention for outcomes, absent intention for specific actions.
