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Archipelago of Consciousness - The Invisible Sovereignty of Life (Paperback)
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Archipelago of Consciousness - The Invisible Sovereignty of Life (Paperback)
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Few dilemmas in the history of human thought have aroused debates
so exciting as that on consciousness. In the past, few scholars
recognised scientific dignity to the issue, perhaps because of its
subjective nature. Conditioned by limitations of the introspective
method and by the unnatural opposition between conscious and
unconscious, the study of consciousness has been the exclusive
prerogative of philosophy, literature and theology, strengthening
the prejudice that separates humanistic and scientific culture.
Mauro Maldonato sets out to establish a fruitful dialogue between
different disciplines, investigating consciousness from points of
view that shape awareness of ourselves and of the world. For every
one of us, consciousness is a primary, immediate, permanent fact
the core of life itself. Why, then, are we so far from forming any
definitive picture of what it is, and what it means for us? The
study of the biological bases for consciousness has shown how
physics is incapable of providing credible solutions; the lack of
means to describe the interactions between neuronal structures and
qualitative experiences leads to an investigative dead end. But
this explanatory shortfall does not authorise us to postulate the
existence of an inaccessible sancta sanctorum. A scientific project
to naturalise consciousness attempting to ground our relational
life and human action in biology has to recognise issues of
complexity, and the irreversibility and historical contingency of
our individual phenomenalistic experience. The ground-breaking
Archipelago of Consciousness: How Biology invents Culture follows
the author's well received writings on Natural Logic, Decision
Making and the Predictive Brain.
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