Unified System for Self- and Other-Awareness

Happe 2003 hypothesis that humans use a single cognitive system for reasoning about mental states of self and others

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thinker

Happé 2003
introduces
Argued that humans have a unified system for thinking about mental states of self and others

claim

The proposed framework models the self-application aspect of the unified ToM system
supports
Author's claim that introspective inference is one half of the unified ToM system and can be extended to other-inference

hypothesis

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Apparent Self-Awarenessconcept0.795
A dialogue agent using first-personal pronouns and expressing self-concern in ways that suggest consciousness but are actually role play
Self Awarenessconcept0.781
Self-Organizing Systemconcept0.778
Systems whose structure emerges from internal communication patterns rather than external design; the paper proposes consciousness as arising in such systems
unityconcept0.762
The indivisible oneness, meltedness that is the source of life; it cannot be described as a structure because it is pure one.
Self-Other Distinctionconcept0.756
The implicit capacity the self-prior implements by assigning high density to familiar self-states and low density to non-self states
The Self (Human Self)concept0.754
The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
spiritual awareness through abstract colour and formconcept0.751
Quality Alexander finds in early Turkish carpets, reinforcing the metaphysical basis of his work.
There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.750
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.