 These last 20 years have seen an explosion of experimental work on interoception. Recent accounts of interoception have highlighted its role for self- awareness, positing it at the core of what is sometimes called the “sentient self” (Craig 2003), the “proto- self” (Damasio 1999), the “embodied self” (Seth 2013), or the “material me” (Tsakiris 2017). Even Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy take interoceptive feelings to be the key for our unique relationship with our body: 