 However, even if interoception can ground some notion of the self, it is not clear that it is specifically involved in the sense of bodily ownership. Imagine a creature that only receives interoceptive signals. It receives information about its body, and its body only. But there is a difference between self-specificity (information exclusively about the body that happens to be one’s own) and self-reference (awareness of the body qua one’s own). The problem is that on the basis of interoception only, there is no need to discriminate the inside from the outside since the body is only an inside. It is so fixated on its own body that it can dispense with representing whose body is hungry or thirsty. The fact is that one usually says “I am thirsty”, without any reference to bodily ownership, let alone to the body.