I argue that (subjective) consciousness is an aspect of an agent’s intelligence, hence of its ability to deal adaptively with the world. In particular, it allows for the possibility of noting and correcting the agent’s errors, as actions performed by itself. This in turn requires a robust self-concept as part of the agent’s world model; the appropriate notion of self here is a special one, allo...

According to the self-representational theory of consciousness – self-representationalism for short – a mental state is phenomenally conscious when, and only when, it represents itself in the right way. Part of the motivation for this view is a conception of phenomenal consciousness as involving essentially a subtle, primordial kind of self-consciousness. A consequence of this conception is tha...

SlIm mary.-This study assessed the effi cacy of the Self-consciousness Scale in different iating shortand long-term schizophrenics from sociopaths and psych iatric aides. Three gro ups of 10 state hospital residen ts were selected on the basis of evidence of schizophren ia or antisocial pe rsonality using bot h interview and psychometric measures. A comparison group of 10 randomly chosen psychi...

This study investigated whether personality plays a role in a condition called dental anxiety. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between dental anxiety (the negative response to the stress elicited from a dental interaction) and self-consciousness (the tendency to evaluate aspects of oneself that are subject to private and public display). The purpose of this study was to identi...

1. The Presumption of Open Alternatives As practical beings, we act with a sense of freedom, or, to use Kant’s memorable phrase, “unter der Idee der Freiheit.” This attitude is present whenever we are deciding what to do, and it is most clearly revealed when we reflect on what we take for granted while deliberating. Consider a young man, Imad, who lives under an oppressive military occupation a...

Increasing sequences of contractive projections on a reflexive LP space share an unconditionality property similar to that exhibited sequences of self-adjoint projections on a Hilbert space. A slight variation of this property is shown to be precisely the correct condition on a reflexive Banach space to ensure that every operator with a contractive AC-functional calculus is scalar-type spectraL

Background and Objective: Different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. We assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. Methods: In a cross-s...

The relation between cognitive self-consciousness and meta-worry, and their association with symptoms of worry and obsessional thoughts were examined. 53 undergraduate students completed the expanded version of the Cognitive Self-consciousness Scale, the Meta-worry subscale of the Anxious Thoughts Inventory, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, and the Padua Inventory-Revised. Analysis showed th...

Quite a few recent models are rapidly introducing new concepts describing different levels of consciousness. This situation is getting confusing because some theorists formulate their models without making reference to existing views, redundantly adding complexity to an already difficult problem. In this paper I present and compare nine such models to highlight points of convergence and diverge...