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    If action without felt bodily awareness is possible, agen... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There must be a connection between our capacity to act directly with our body and our capacity to feel our body from the inside.

    If action without felt bodily awareness is possible, agency and interoception are doubly dissociable, not necessarily connected.

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    • 1.Patients with severe interoceptive deficits (e.g., primary autonomic failure) retain ability to execute deliberate actions, showing agency without bodily awareness.
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    • 2.Automated skilled actions (typing, driving) occur with minimal interoceptive monitoring, suggesting agency can function independently of moment-to-moment bodily signals.
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    • 3.Double dissociation requires each capacity to survive independently; evidence of decoupled agency and interoception supports this logical structure.
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    • 1.Agency fundamentally requires proprioception and kinesthetic awareness to generate motor commands; 'action without bodily awareness' may be linguistically incoherent.
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    • 2.Automated actions still depend on baseline interoceptive regulation (arousal, glucose homeostasis); absence of conscious awareness ≠ absence of interoceptive involvement.
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    • 3.Dissociation in brain-damaged patients reflects neural reorganization, not true independence; healthy systems show constitutive integration of agency and interoception.
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