Abstract: After reconstructing three arguments for Nietzsche’s descriptive analysis of the self as complex, this article clarifies some greatness’s psychological conditions. It then offers why we should not focus on these internal conditions when seeking to verify or achieve greatness. First, renders introspection too coarse-grained and error-prone subtle type unity required Second, Nietzsche a...

As TRAC approaches another milestone anniversary there is much to celebrate - a successful conference, large body of publications, and thriving community. Part this success stems from the unusually introspective self-critical nature organisation. However, despite tradition, has been limited data-driven analysis TRAC's successes failures. This paper uses bibliometric data corpus publications ove...

The self has been proposed to be rooted in the neural monitoring of internal bodily signals and might thus involve interoceptive areas, notably the right anterior insula (rAI). However, studies on the self consistently showed the involvement of midline default network (DN) nodes, without referring to visceral monitoring. Here, we investigate this apparent discrepancy. We previously showed that ...

Self-motion can facilitate perspective switches and "automatic spatial updating" and help reduce disorientation in applications like virtual reality (VR). However, providing physical motion through moving-base motion simulators or free-space walking areas comes with high cost and technical complexity. This study provides first evidence that merely experiencing an embodied illusion of self-motio...

We present a semantic model for knowledge with the following properties: (1) Knowledge is necessarily correct, (2) agents are logically omniscient, i.e., they know all the consequences of their knowledge, and (3) agents are positively introspective, i.e., they are aware of their knowledge, but not negatively introspective, i.e., they may not be aware of their ignorance. We argue that this is th...

Abstract Victor Lamme proposed that the study of consciousness should not be based on introspection. Nevertheless, Lamme understands consciousness as a subjective phenomenon, and introspection as the way in which we acquire knowledge about consciousness. This makes the task to find introspective-free methods to study consciousness difficult. Lamme attempts to make progress by introducing "neura...

Skepticism about the epistemic value of intuition in theoretical and philosophical inquiry fueled by the empirical discovery of irrational bias (e.g., the order effect) in people’s intuitions has recently been challenged by research suggesting that people have introspective awareness of intuitional instability. The current studies build upon this, providing evidence that people are able to intr...