Tiziano Furlanetto's Article: The Bilocated Mind

In the article “The Bilocated Mind”, Tiziano Furlanetto, Cesare Bertone, and Cristina Becchio discuss the complexities behind the idea of mental bilocation. They begin the article by positing the idea that “self-experience, however, is not always constrained by the body.” Such a claim can be further understood as idea that the body and the self are not always unified. The authors of the article explore this disunity by discussing mental bilocation and how a person’s body can be in one location but they can still identify the “self” in another location. While such a phenomenon may seem unreal, the article explains the phenomenon through some examples. By looking at the first example of heautoscopy-the act of seeing one’s double- the article presents the idea of depersonalization. Those who experience heautoscopy depersonalize themselves from their own body and identify more with the double they are seeing. An example of a heautoscopic experience can involve someone seeing themselves in a photograph and identifying more with the version of themselves in the picture than the one staring at the picture itself. Such a depersonalization with their physical body brings this person to wonder where their true self is actually located. This questioning of one’s identity and total removal …show more content…
When exploring the concept of dissociation, dissociative drugs such as LSD play a key role in showing how dissociation affects a person. Those who use drugs such as LSD experience an altered state of consciousness that affects their senses and perception to the point of possibly experiences hallucinations. Apart from hallucinations LSD can also cause the effect of dissociation where one feels depersonalized from their physical body and is trying to identify where the “self” is located. Such an experience is highlighted in the article’s exploration of depersonalization and mental