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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: A pure conjecture on the nature of the self
Message-ID: <443@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 14:00:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.443
Posted: Mon Oct 20 14:00:11 1986
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <11786@glacier.ARPA> jbn@glacier.ARPA (John B. Nagle) writes:
>...  The reflexes behind tickling
>seem to be connected to something that has a good way of deciding
>what is self and what isn't.

     I would suspect it has more to do with "predictability" -- you
can predict, in some sense, where you feel tickling, therefore you
don't feel it in the same way.  It's similar to the blinking "reflex"
to a looming object; if the looming object is someone else's hand
you blink, if it's your hand you don't.

     The predictability may come from a sense of self, but I think
it's more likely to come from the fact that you're fully aware of
what is going to happen next when it's your own movements giving
the stimulus.

--Jamie.
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