Conference paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.14.3.1
Consciousness on the crossroad between biomedical pondering and social sciences and humanities
Amir Muzur
orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-6733
Abstract
Like "light" or "fire", the consciousness as a term is so imprecise, confusing, and potentially polysemantic that it, logically, does not demonstrate any advancement in providing a satisfactory neurophysiological texture except adding new theories and their advocates. Even in the pragmatic clinical-neurological sense, cleared have been neither quantitative nor quantitative limits of consciousness.
On the other hand, within the discourse in the framework of social sciences and humanities, consciousness does not ceed being "useful", i. e., being questioned as the base of morality, planning, creating new or inexisting contents, possibility of communication with others, intention, discerning thruth from deception, self-consciousness, synthetical pondering and concluding, choice as a katalyser of freedom, responsability and control, attention, memory as the spanning of time, nuanced behavious as a response to external factors, etc.
This paper can thus be considered an "encomium to consciuosness" as an artificial, agreed "accidental" construct which, precisely by its impreciseness, have provided an important contribution to the maturing of man as an intellectual being.
Keywords
consciousness; reductionism; bioethics
Hrčak ID:
168726
URI
Publication date:
21.11.2016.
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