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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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