Spontaniczność świadomości: Analiza neurofenomenologiczna

• Authors: Robert Hanna , Evan Thompson

Title variants

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Neurophenomenology And The Spontaneity Of Consciousness

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

It is now conventional wisdom that conscious experience — or in Nagel’s canonical characterization, “what it is like to be” for an organism — is what makes the mind-body problem so intractable. By the same token, our current conceptions of the mind-body relation are inadequate and some conceptual development is urgently needed. Our overall aim in this paper is to make some progress towards that conceptual development. We first examine a currently neglected, yet fundamental aspect of consciousness. This aspect is the spontaneity of consciousness, by which we mean its inner plasticity and inner purposiveness. We then sketch a “neurophenomenological” framework for thinking about the relationship between the spontaneity of consciousness and dynamic patterns of brain activity as studied in cognitive neuroscience. We conclude by proposing that the conscious mentality of sentient organisms or animals is active and dynamic, and that this “enactive” conception of consciousness can help us to move beyond the classical dichotomy between materialism and dualism.

Keywords

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; ENACTIVE; MIND; NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Contributors

author

Robert Hanna

• Department of Philosophy University of Colorado, Boulder, USA C.B. 232 Office: Hellems 142

author

Evan Thompson