Talk:Protoself

Grr. Can someone please revert this to an appropriate revision, as I can't get at the edit history at the moment. If there are accuracy problems, don't blank the article but discuss it here! Thanks Dysprosia 23:18, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If we don't have anybody familiar with the topic, and if nobody wants to talk to the original author, who is apparently the only one who has purported familiarity with the topic, there is no reason to assume the content is valid. It is not verifiable on line. Even the idea that Damasio popularized the idea of a protoself is specious, if it is not based on reference to Damasio or other's writing. And nobody is offering those references, and nobody cares enough about the topic to look them up. The conflict seems to be more about who can and who cannot edit, regardless if the contributions are valid. The article has not been blanked, it is a stub, and even the stubbified version is not readily verifiable.

If people are more interested in who can and who cannot edit at Wikipedia than they are in esoteric approaches to neurology, maybe the article should just be deleted. What would be the loss, except to somebody's pride that they could not force the retention of an article written by a writer who then refused to attest to the validity of a contribution? Verificator 05:46, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Verificator, what in particular do you find inaccurate in the original article? General criticism of the type you give is difficult to respond to. Wmahan. 21:46, 2004 May 4 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Unless anybody has real good arguments against this, I will merge this article with Core consciousness, but not sooner than 6/6. Lova Falk    talk   16:20, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I decided not to do this. Both protoself and core consciousness, and, by the way, extended consciousness should all be sections in a new article that might be called Damasio's theory of consciousness. I haven't read Damasio's book and don't really know enough of this theory to create this article. I'll also remove the tag.  Lova Falk     talk   12:49, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

New Merger Proposal
I would like to merge this article, along with the article entitled Extended Consciousness, into the article Core Consciousness. I would then re-title the entire article "Damasio's Theory of Consciousness". If anyone has any objections, do voice them. Otherwise I will procede with the merge in about a week. Rachaelallen91 (talk)
 * Please go ahead! Remember though that article titles are case sensitive, and that we use sentence style. Thus, you're going to merge this article, along with Extended consciousness into Core consciousness, and than retitle (we call this "move") into Damasio's theory of consciousness. Good luck, and let us know if you need some help!  Lova Falk     talk   13:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)