 A focus on embodied self-experience inevitably leads to a decisive widening of the discussion. The externality of embodiment puts me, and my actions, in the public sphere. Self-consciousness, which involves an ability to make reflective judgments about our own beliefs and desires, is always shaped by others and what we have learned from others. This intersubjective or social influence can also affect pre-reflective self-awareness, including my sense of embodied agency.