Unconscious influences on discourses about consciousness : ideology, state-specific science and unformulated experience

Edwards, D J A

Title: Unconscious influences on discourses about consciousness : ideology, state-specific science and unformulated experience
Creator: Edwards, D J A
Date Issued: 2005
Date: 2005
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6226
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007776
Description: Discussions about consciousness are complicated by the fact that participants do not share a common underlying “ordinary” consciousness. Everyday experience is founded on what Teasdale calls implicational cognition, much of which is not verbally formulated. An unacknowledged aspect of debate is individuals’ attempts to negotiate the expression of their unformulated experience. This is further complicated by the way in which a discourse, based on particular ontological assumptions, exercises an ideological control which limits what underlying aspects of experience can be formulated at all. Tart’s concept of state specific sciences provides a framework within which the role of unformulated experience can be acknowledged and taken into account. Unless this is done, debates will be vitiated by participants engaging in ideological struggles and talking at cross-purposes.
Format: 20 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
Language: English
Relation: Edwards, D.J.A. (2005) Unconscious influences on discourses about consciousness: ideology, state-specific science and unformulated experience. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 5 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1445-7377
Rights: Edwards, D J A

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