El misterio de la conciencia. La búsqueda de un método para saldar la brecha explicativa

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  • Leticia Basso Monteverde Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Keywords:

naturalization , phenomenological method , lived experience

Abstract

In this article, we have analyzed the general guidelines of the project of a naturalized phenomenology, attending to the possibilities and limits observed in the application of this philosophical method to the empirical field. We address this issue specifically from the Neurophenomenology program, developed in its beginnings by Francisco Varela. In this sense, we focus on his use of the epoché to explore the structure of lived experience, expand access to its meaning and report its dynamics, based on the performative coherence and co-implication of the phenomenal and cognitive dimensions of Consciousness. This is a modality of application of the phenomenological method, which implies a formalization process conducted through the elicitation interview.

Therefore, as the nodular point of the problem studied is genetic, we first approach the proposal of “the hard problem of Consciousness” and the search for a first-person approach to subjective experience. This way, we reconstruct the central aspects under discussion that open the intersection between Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, which, with the enactive theory, find a formulation and way of application in Neurophenomenology.

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How to Cite

Basso Monteverde, L. . (2022). El misterio de la conciencia. La búsqueda de un método para saldar la brecha explicativa. Cuadernos Del Sur Filosofía, (48), 111–128. Retrieved from https://ojs.uns.edu.ar/csf/article/view/3390

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