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Ethical Know-How - Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Paperback)
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Ethical Know-How - Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Paperback)
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How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book
addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary
neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we
unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological
and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious
judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic
self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our
present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental
self, a stable subject, or a soul.
In earlier modes of cognitive science, cognition was conceptualized
according to a model of representation and abstract reasoning. In
the realm of ethics, this corresponded to the philosophical tenet
that to do what is ethical is to do what corresponds to an abstract
set of rules. By contrast to this computationalism, the author
places central emphasis on what he terms "enaction"--cognition as
the ability to negotiate embodied, everyday living in a world that
is inseparable from our sensory-motor capacities.
Apart from his researches in cognitive science, the bodies of
thought that enable Varela to make this link are phenomenology and
two representatives of what he calls the "wisdom traditions":
Confucian ethics and Buddhist epistemology. From the Confucian
tradition, he draws upon the "Mencius" to propose an ethics of
praxis, one in which ethical action is conceived as a project of
being rather than as a system of judgment, less a matter of rules
that are universally applicable than a goal of expertise, sagehood.
The Buddhist contribution to his project encompasses "the
embodiment of the void" and the "pragmatics of a virtual self." How
does a belief system that does not posit a unitary self or subject
conceive the living of an "I"? In summation, the author proposes an
ethics founded on "savoir faire" that is a practice of
transformation based on a constant recognition of the "virtual"
nature of ourselves in the actual operations of our mental lives.
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