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The Intellective Space - Thinking beyond Cognition (Paperback)
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The Intellective Space - Thinking beyond Cognition (Paperback)
Series: Posthumanities
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The Intellective Space explores the nature and limits of thought.
It celebrates the poetic virtues of language and the creative
imperfections of our animal minds while pleading for a renewal of
the humanities that is grounded in a study of the sciences.
According to Laurent Dubreuil, we humans both say more than we
think and think more than we say. Dubreuil's particular interest is
the intellective space, a space where thought and knowledge are
performed and shared. For Dubreuil, the term "cognition" refers to
the minimal level of our mental operations. But he suggests that
for humans there is an excess of cognition due to our extensive
processing necessary for verbal language, brain dynamics, and
social contexts. In articulating the intellective, Dubreuil
includes "the productive undoing of cognition." Dubreuil grants
that cognitive operations take place and that protocols of
experimental psychology, new techniques of neuroimagery, and
mathematical or computerized models provide access to a certain
understanding of thought. But he argues that there is something in
thinking that bypasses cognitive structures. Seeking to theorize
with the sciences, the book's first section develops the
"intellective hypothesis" and points toward the potential journey
of ideas going beyond cognition, after and before computation. The
second part, "Animal Meditations," pursues some of the consequences
of this hypothesis with regard to the disparaged but enduring
project of metaphysics, with its emphasis on categories such as
reality, humanness, and the soul.
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