What does agency afford the self?
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Characterization of the Sense of Agency over the Actions of Neural-machine Interface-operated Prostheses
Published on: January 7, 2019
Bradley Franks1, Benjamin G Voyer2
1Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS),London School of Economics & Political Science,Queens House,55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields,London WC2A 3LJ,UK.b.franks@lse.ac.ukhttp://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/People/Dr-Bradley-Franks.
Abstract:
We welcome Doris's dual systems, social account of agency and self. However, we suggest that a level of affordances regarding agency is interpolated between those dual systems. We also suggest a need to consider joint ("we") agency in addition to individual ("I") agency, and we suggest a more fundamental role for culture in configuring both the values entering the dialogue that generates the sense of agency and self, and the nature of the dialogue itself.
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