Ask Mark 2.10 - Conceptualization of subjectivity
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-10-07

Ask Mark 2.10 - Conceptualization of subjectivity

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: I'm wondering if your conceptualization of subjectivity – and hence of mind – requires a representation or modeling of the self (in the brain)? That is, do all minded creatures, in effect, inform themselves of their subjectivity: "I am a self that is having this experience". (Though obviously not necessarily language-mediated.)