The natural philosophy of agency - how to define sense of agency

There is no consensus about what exactly is SoA

defined by bodily movement of motor control (movement, control)

intentional aspect of action

product of high order cognitive function

feature of first person experience

Ownership of movement - I'm moving (as an object) therefor I own this movement in some sense

this is different from agency in two levels

first person experience (FPE)

high conscious awareness - the ability to reflect and say that x,y,z

the experiments are troubling and interesting

troubling - what exactly are we measuring

intersting - what is sense of agency

afferent signals generate the sense of ownership

efferent signals generate the soa

just that? if nothing happened could we have agency of nothing? we need to have afferent knowledge

Chaminade and Decety experiment

leader and follower icon

the idea is that we expect to have a difference between the intentional leader to the "passive" follower

but in some way the follower is also intentional

and, maybe the focus is in the motor level

a lot of experiments try to distinguish between the sense of agency to sense of ownership - therefor they try to made experiments on different environment then the body

haggard objection - if the experiment include moving so the subject of the experiment will have agency at list for this movement

applied to chamunade and to farrer and frith

Ferrer & Frith

moving point on the screen, sometimes your joystick, sometimes the experimenter

the idea is that the point on the screen is not part of the body - so the fact that the subject move his hand doesn't matter

nevertheless, in the discussion they explain that the insula is involved because body modulations

haggard objection is applied

agency - anterior insula

not agency - right inferior parietal cortex

conclusion: three types of SoA

SA as first-order experience linked to intentional aspect - not merely the body

SA as first-order experience linked to bodily movement

SA as second-order, reflective attribution

reflective in what sense