Conceptualizing Mind and Consciousness: Using Constructivist Ideas to Transcend the Physical Bind

Autor/in	Becker, Joe
Titel	Conceptualizing Mind and Consciousness: Using Constructivist Ideas to Transcend the Physical Bind
Quelle	In: Human Development, 51 (2008) 3, S.165-189 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-716X
DOI	10.1159/000135754
Schlagwörter	Constructivism (Learning); Concept Formation; Abstract Reasoning; Intention; Cognitive Development; Piagetian Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	Philosophers and scientists seeking to conceptualize consciousness, and subjective experience in particular, have focused on sensation and perception, and have emphasized binding--how a percept holds together. Building on a constructivist approach to conception centered on separistic-holistic complexes incorporating multiple levels of abstraction, the present approach reconceptualizes binding and opens a new path to theorizing the emergence of consciousness. It is proposed that all subjective experience involves multiple levels of abstraction, a central feature of conception. This modifies the prevalent idea of sequential development from sensation through perception to conception. Further, this approach to mind and consciousness links constructivist theory to artistic activity and suggests that conception, subjective experience, aboutness (intentionality), and agency are linked together through separistic-holistic complexes. It also argues for change in the prevailing constructivist view that regards the process of production of new levels of conception as inherently directed towards better fit with the external environment. (As Provided).
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