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Agency, Simulation and Self‐identification
Author(s) -
Jeannerod Marc,
Pacherie Elisabeth
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2004.00251.x
Subject(s) - ascription , agency (philosophy) , identification (biology) , action (physics) , covert , attribution , object (grammar) , affordance , subject (documents) , psychology , sense of agency , cognitive psychology , domain (mathematical analysis) , perspective (graphical) , cognitive science , computer science , epistemology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , linguistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , botany , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , biology
This paper is concerned with the problem of self‐identification in the domain of action. We claim that this problem can arise not just for the self as object, but also for the self as subject in the ascription of agency. We discuss and evaluate some proposals concerning the mechanisms involved in self‐identification and in agency‐ascription, and their possible impairments in pathological cases. We argue in favor of a simulation hypothesis that claims that actions, whether overt or covert, are centrally simulated by the neural network, and that this simulation provides the basis for action recognition and attribution.