PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Autobiographical Memory, 18 Months, Personal Pronoun
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Self knowledge can take many different forms humans take it for granted. According to parker, the complexity of self knowledge that an organism has, depends on how complex that organism is in the first time. The more complex an organism, the more complex their self knowledge will be. According to parker, at the lowest level of taxonomy (cellular and tissue level) we need not be conscious of this knowledge we don"t need to be aware of the cellular functions happening in our body at the very moment. As organisms become more complex, as we continue along the species taxonomy, so too the form of self knowledge becomes more complex. Mirror self recognition to index self knowledge. In order to recognize oneself in mirror, you need to be able to map that visual image of yourself. As we continue along the species taxonomy, the most complex species (us), the complex we get.
