--- abstract: "First-person and third-person perspectives are different items of human consciousness.\r\nFeeling the taste of a fruit or being consciously part of a group eating fruits call for different perspectives of\r\nconsciousness. The latter is about objective reality (third-person data). The former is about subjective\r\nexperience (first-person data) and cannot be described entirely by objective reality.\r\nWe propose to look at how these two perspectives could be rooted in an evolutionary origin of human\r\nconsciousness, and somehow be connected.\r\nOur starting point is a scenario describing how evolution could have transformed a non self-conscious\r\nauto-representation into a conscious self-representation (Menant 2006). The scenario is based on the\r\nperformance of inter-subjectivity existing among non human primates (Gardenfors 2006). A key item of the\r\nscenario is the identification of the auto-representation of a subject with the representations that the subject\r\nhas of her conspecifics, the latter feeding the former with the meaning: “existing in the environment”.\r\nSo during evolution, pre-human primates were brought to perceive their auto-representation as existing in\r\nthe environment. Such process could have generated the initial elements of a conscious self-representation.\r\nWe take this scenario as providing a possible rooting of human consciousness in evolution.\r\nWe develop here a part of this scenario by expliciting the inward and outward components of the non\r\nself-conscious auto-representation.\r\nInward components are about proprioception and interoception (thirst, pain, …). Outward components cover\r\nthe sensory information relative to the perception of the body (seen feet, … ) and of its effects on the\r\nenvironment.\r\nWe consider that the initial elements of a conscious self-representation have been applied to both inward and\r\noutward components of the auto-representation. We propose that the application to inward components made\r\npossible some first-person information, and that the application to outward components brought up third-person\r\ninformation. Relations between the two perspectives are highlighted.\r\nSuch approach can root first-person and third-person perspectives in the same slot of human evolution.\r\nWe conclude by a summary of the above and introduce a possible application of this approach to the concepts\r\nof bodily self and of pre-reflexive self-consciousness (Legrand, 2006)." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'June 19-22, 2008' conference: ASSC 12 confloc: Taiwan contact_email: ~ creators_id: - christophe.menant@hotmail.fr creators_name: - family: Menant given: Christophe honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008-06 date_type: published datestamp: 2008-07-15 09:53:29 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/61/20 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6120 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6120/2/C.Menant%2DASSC12%2DPoster.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Evolution, first-person, third-person, consciousness, auto-representation, self-representation, pre-reflexive self-consciousness ' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:09 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: "* Gardenfors, P. (2006). “Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity”.\r\n* Legrand D. (2006). “The bodily self: the sensory motor roots of pre-reflexive self-consciousness”\r\n* Menant, C (2006, a). Evolution of Representations. From Basic Life to Self-representation and Self-consciousness\". \r\n* Menant, C. (2006, b). “Evolution of Representations and Intersubjectivity as sources of the Self. An Introduction to the Nature of Self-Consciousness”. " relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 31 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2008-07-15 09:53:29 subjects: - phil-mind - bio-primat - bio-evo succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Evolution as Connecting First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives of Consciousness type: confposter userid: 2546 volume: ~