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    Challenges→Bodily self-ascriptions do not display the same type of immunity to error through misidentification as mental self-ascriptions

    Bodily self-ascriptions can be undermined by cross-wiring scenarios in which a subject's proprioceptive system is connected to another person's body

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    Bodily IEM has been taken by some as evidence that the self is embodied. For instance, Evans (1982) and Cassam (1997) use bodily IEM as an argument against the Cartesian view of the self. In a nutshell, one can self-ascribe bodily properties as well as mental properties to the self without self-identification. Hence the object of such judgments, the self, is not a Cartesian ego, but a bodily subject of both mental and physical properties. However, others wonder if one is entitled to draw such a

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