title: Infer yourself: Interoception and internal "action" in conscious selfhood.
abstract: Can consciousness be understood through an association with voluntary skeletomotor action selection? Although flexible and integrated action selection is a plausible function for consciousness, a narrow focus on skeletomotor control neglects the contributions to conscious selfhood and subjectivity that rest on interoception and autonomic regulation (internal "action"). I consider these issues from the perspective of predictive processing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics,Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science,University of Sussex,Brighton BN1 9QJ,United Kingdom.a.k.seth@sussex.ac.ukwww.anilseth.com.
authors.forename: Anil K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Seth
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D065812:Interoception; D012146:Rest