Beyond Consciousness of External Reality: A “Who” System for Consciousness of Action and Self-Consciousness

Beyond the justification hypothesis: A b

Beyond the justification hypothesis: A broader theory of the evolution of self-consciousness

✍ Simine Vazire; Richard W. Robins 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 46 KB

## Abstract We evaluate Henriques' Justification Hypothesis (JH; this issue) and argue that his explanation for the evolution of self‐consciousness is overly narrow and the evolutionary sequence of events is backwards. Instead, we propose a broader theory of the evolution of self‐consciousness, wit