ABSTRACT
The body is the self – is the subject. Thus, it might be thought that the subject in representing itself must represent its body. In that case, it would seem that body representation is a form of self-representation. Indeed, in agents with selfconsciousness, body representations may be a primordial form of self-consciousness (Rochat 2011, Peacocke 2014). I want to approach these issues by way of ref lecting on the functional architecture of body representations. In particular, I will focus on body representations which support action: the body schema. My aim is to defend the coherence and utility of the notion of the body schema as body representations for action .
