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Knowing without Thinking - Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background (Hardcover)
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Knowing without Thinking - Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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Modern study of the mind is marked by the hegemony of thought,
dominance of consciousness, and dictate of deliberation that result
in an overwhelming intellectualism. However, it ignores the
fundamental fact that by far most of our mental activity is not
manifested in explicit reasoning, and is mostly not conscious. What
then enables our successful participation in the natural, social,
and cultural surroundings without recourse to the 'higher'
cognitive processes? The background. It is the implicit and
efficacious guide in human coping with the world without the
monitoring reason. Yet how rules turn into routines? How conscious
efforts convert into unreflective skills? How does the body of
knowledge become the knowing body? How can most complex reactions
of the human mind turn into 'just doing'? The lesson from the
background teaches us that we are capacitated to do more than we
explicitly know; the sort of knowledge is skilled and automated
competence which is there before the conscious 'self' can report of
its emergence.
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