Minimal self, bodily signals and consciousness
1 : Ecole Normale Supérieure
INSERM Paris
A core characteristic of conscious experience is its subjectivity. Experience is the direct acquaintance with something from a first-person perspective, as it appears to us and what it evokes in us. By very definition, experiences are necessarily had by an experiencing subject, the minimal self. I will present the neural subjective frame, i.e. a mechanistic framework, where bodily signals play a coordinating role capable of accounting for the emergence of a unified first-person perspective, as well as supporting experimental evidence.