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    Bodily self-ascriptions grounded in body senses (proprioc... — Carmelics
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    Bodily self-ascriptions grounded in body senses (proprioception, interoception) are immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person.

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    • 1.Body senses provide a privileged informational access to one's own body only.
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    • 2.The inside mode of gaining information about one's body guarantees that no intermediary process of self-identification is required.
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    • 3.A self-ascription is immune to error through misidentification when the subject cannot rationally doubt who instantiates the property when information is gained in the appropriate way.
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    • 1.Phantom limb phenomena demonstrate that proprioceptive signals can represent body parts that no longer belong to the subject's actual body.
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    • 2.If proprioception can misrepresent which body is being tracked, the subject can rationally err about whether the felt limb is their own.
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    • 3.Therefore, the informational pathway does not guarantee self-identification is bypassed, undermining IEM for proprioceptive self-ascriptions.
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    • 1.Rubber hand illusion experiments (Botvinick & Cohen, 1998) show subjects misascribe tactile sensations to a prosthetic limb under multisensory conflict.
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    • 2.Shoemaker's own framework for IEM requires that the information source reliably tracks the subject's body, not merely that it is body-directed.
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    • 3.When sensory integration processes can reassign bodily ownership to non-self objects, proprioception fails the reliability condition IEM presupposes.
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    Despite their differences, all bodily experiences seem to display the same epistemological signature: they ground the immunity to error through misidentification relative to the first-person of bodily self-ascriptions. Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error if and only if one cannot rationally doubt who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property that one ascribes to ones
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