Metamisery and Bodily Inexistence

A Reply to Ying-Tung Lin

Author

Philip Gerrans

philip.gerrans @ adelaide.edu.au

University of Adelaide

Adelaide, Australia

Commentator

Ying-Tung Lin

linyingtung @ gmail.com

國立陽明大學
National Yang-Ming University

Taipei, Taiwan

Editors

Thomas Metzinger

metzinger @ uni-mainz.de

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

The difference between the Cotard Depersonalisation and Depersonalisation Disorder may consist, not only in the fact that the Cotard delusion is a response  to prediction error affective/bodily information, but the level in the predictive processing hierarchy at which predictions about bodily information are violated.

Keywords

Cotard delusion | Depersonalisation disorder | Interoception | Predictive coding | Self awareness