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■ Second-person perspective toward consciousness
In "I and Thou" Martin Buber wrote that
"the world as experience belongs to the basic word I-It. The basic word I-You establishes the world of relation." (Martin Buber, I and Thou, Translated by Walter Kaufmann. (New York: Scribner’s, 1970), p. 56)
Yes, I-It contains what we calls "first-person perspective"(subjective / phenomenological) and "third person perspective"(objective / scientific). The idea of I-You relationship led me to think about SECOND-person perspective, or we would call it EXISTENTIAL perspective.
I am not fully devoted to social neuroscience but am a proponent of the idea that social relation precedes phenomenal world. At this level, emotion, reward, goal-directedness etc. can be regarded as a SOURCE of consciousness - which is somewhat Buddhistic view (*). This idea may also change the realm of what is experience and what is relation.
Thinking about the existential perspective more extensively may be the way to extend sensorimotor view of consciousness to reconcile with the view of people who believe that nonhuman animal does not have consciousness. For them, sensorimotor view seems to be an explanation of PROTO-consciousness.
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