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Anna Ciaunica – Back to square one: The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life

29 March 2022 @ 12:00 - 13:00

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On Tuesday March 29th, there will be an additional lunch seminar session during which Dr. Anna Ciaunica will give a presentation about her recent work. Anna Ciaunica is a Principle Investigator at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Her presentation is titled ‘Back to square one: The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life’. Abstract Most theoretical and empirical discussions about the…
On Tuesday March 29th, there will be an additional lunch seminar session during which Dr. Anna Ciaunica will give a presentation about her recent work. Anna Ciaunica is a Principle Investigator at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Her presentation is titled ‘Back to square one: The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life’.

Abstract

Most theoretical and empirical discussions about the nature of consciousness are typically couched in a way that endorses a tacit adult-centric and vision-based perspective. This paper defends the idea that consciousness science may be put on a fruitful track for its next phase by examining the nature of subjective experiences through a bottom-up developmental lens. We draw attention to the intrinsic link between consciousness, experiences and experiencing subjects, which are first and foremost embodied and situated organisms essentially concerned with self-preservation within a precarious environment. Our paper suggests that in order to understand what consciousness is, one should first tackle the fundamental question: how do embodied experiences arise from square one? We then highlight one key yet overlooked aspect of human consciousness studies, namely that the earliest and closest environment of an embodied experiencing subject is the body of another human experiencing subject. We present evidence speaking in favour of fairly sophisticated forms of early sensorimotor integration of bodily signals and self-generated actions already being established in utero. We conclude that these primitive and fundamentally relational and co-embodied roots of our early experiences may have crucial impact on the way human beings consciously experience the self, body and the world across their lifespan. The meeting will take place in E15.39/41 from 12.00-13.00 (so, half an hour earlier than general). By Monday it will be made known if the meeting will also be screened via Zoom. Would you please let Nina de Boer, nina.deboer@ru.nl ,  know before Monday 11.00 whether you would like to join in person?

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Date:
29 March 2022
Time:
12:00 - 13:00

On Tuesday March 29th, there will be an additional lunch seminar session during which Dr. Anna Ciaunica will give a presentation about her recent work. Anna Ciaunica is a Principle Investigator at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL.

Her presentation is titled ‘Back to square one: The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life’.

Abstract

Most theoretical and empirical discussions about the nature of consciousness are typically couched in a way that endorses a tacit adult-centric and vision-based perspective. This paper defends the idea that consciousness science may be put on a fruitful track for its next phase by examining the nature of subjective experiences through a bottom-up developmental lens. We draw attention to the intrinsic link between consciousness, experiences and experiencing subjects, which are first and foremost embodied and situated organisms essentially concerned with self-preservation within a precarious environment. Our paper suggests that in order to understand what consciousness is, one should first tackle the fundamental question: how do embodied experiences arise from square one? We then highlight one key yet overlooked aspect of human consciousness studies, namely that the earliest and closest environment of an embodied experiencing subject is the body of another human experiencing subject. We present evidence speaking in favour of fairly sophisticated forms of early sensorimotor integration of bodily signals and self-generated actions already being established in utero. We conclude that these primitive and fundamentally relational and co-embodied roots of our early experiences may have crucial impact on the way human beings consciously experience the self, body and the world across their lifespan.

The meeting will take place in E15.39/41 from 12.00-13.00 (so, half an hour earlier than general). By Monday it will be made known if the meeting will also be screened via Zoom.

Would you please let Nina de Boer, nina.deboer@ru.nl ,  know before Monday 11.00 whether you would like to join in person?

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