The autonomous mind hypothesis : corde idea and selected aspects
27-01-2016 - 12:15
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The term 'autonomous mind' (AM) stays for the massive and robust mental infrastructure acting in the ‘background’, or in the ‘default’ modus, which is capable of charting the arena of possible action, motor and mental, before it is molded in consciousness, before the ‘self’ is aware of it, and before it is shaped in narration. To exemplify the idea I will, on a more general level, outline two theses: that of linearity and of bi-directionality. An attempt to bring about some more specific aspects of AM will enable me to discuss, among other things, a much neglected trait of mentality – the fact that mind is an outcome of effects of cognitive organism's acting upon it. Namely, while we invest most of our theoretical effort to enlighten the role we have as active agents, theorists seem to be insensitive to the fact that we are not only subjects but also objects of own doing. The concluding remark might thus be: the doing shapes the doer in the way not accessible to conscious deliberation. Mind is therefore resultant of the cloth not tailored by the conscious and volitional design.
Zdravko Radman
Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, University of Split, Croatia
http://crcn.ulb.ac.be/the-autonomous-mind-hypothesis-corde-idea-and-selected-aspects/
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