creators_name: Havel, Ivan M.
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2010-09-13 03:58:35
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:40
metadata_visibility: show
title: Uniqueness of episodic experience
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: experience, uniqueness, first-person perspective, episodic situation, episodic memory
note: Editor of the Proceedings is not specified
abstract: In the paper a question is explored whether human person possess something that may be called “a sense of uniqueness” (uniqueness in numerical sense). Uniqueness may be primarily related to individual experience of an episodic situation in an actual context. Only from such an experience one could derive an objective (or intersubjective) notion of uniqueness of concrete things and events. The sense of uniqueness is connected to the sense of spatiotemporal presence, sense of Self, and sense of sameness of episodes really lived through and their recollections. A question is posed of the nature of such connections.
date: 2009-09
date_type: published
publisher: Gaudeamus, Hradec Králové
pagerange: 5-24
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Havel, Ivan M.  (2009) Uniqueness of episodic experience.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6941/1/Uniqueness_09.doc