Narrators and comparators: the architecture of agentive self-awareness

Journal article

This paper contrasts two approaches to agentive self-awareness: a high-level, narrative-based account, and a low-level comparator-based account. We argue that an agent's narrative self-conception has a role to play in explaining their agentive judgments, but that agentive experiences are explained by low-level comparator mechanisms that are grounded in the very machinery responsible for action-production. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Authors: Bayne, T; Pacherie, E

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: SYNTHESE
• Volume: 159
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 475-491
• Publication date: 2007-12-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9239-9
• EISSN: 1573-0964
• ISSN: 0039-7857
• Language: English
• Keywords: agentive judgment; narrative self-conception; comparators; agency; agentive experience