Experiences without for-me-ness? Reconsidering alleged counter examples from psychopathology and psychedelics
Research at the University of Copenhagen May 22, 2020 Mads Gram Henriksen, Josef Parnas 3 citations
For-me-ness, or minimal selfhood, is the quality that makes experiences feel like they belong to a particular subject. Some philosophers argue it is a necessary feature of all conscious experiences, while others point to examples from psychopathology and psychedelic states that seem to lack this quality. This paper examines three such counterexamples and argues that none of them genuinely lack for-me-ness. The authors conclude that for-me-ness remains an ineliminable feature of phenomenal consciousness.