The ownership of memories
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2023
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Fernandez, J.
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Garcia-Carpintero, M.
Guillot, M.
Guillot, M.
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Self-Experience: Essays on Inner Awareness, 2023 / Garcia-Carpintero, M., Guillot, M. (ed./s), Ch.15, pp.343-362
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Jordi Fernández
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Is there such a thing as experiencing a memory as one’s own? I argue that the phenomenon of disowned memory gives us a reason to believe that memories carry a sense of mineness. I challenge the view that the sense of mineness for a memory is the feeling of being identical with the witness of the remembered scene, and I put forward an alternative proposal. According to it, the sense of mineness for a memory is the experience of the memory as matching the past. I argue that the alternative proposal makes better sense of the available reports of disowned memory. I conclude by offering some considerations on how the proposed account could accommodate other cases of disowned conscious states.
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© Jordi Fernández 2023