Consciousness of Oneself as Subject

Consciousness of oneself as object and as subject. Proposal for an evolutionary approach

submission for TSC 2014: We humans experience ourselves as objects and as subjects. The distinction initiated by Kant between consciousness of oneself as object and consciousness of oneself as subject was a strict one. The rigidity of that distinction has been challenged by philosophers from the continental and the analytic traditions [1]. From another perspective, researches about animal self-...

Thinking of oneself as the same.

What is a person, and how can a person come to know that she is a person? Several answers have been explored by philosophers—having an individual body, and individual brain, having specific introspective access to one s thoughts. They all turned out to be non-starters. A major reason why they do not work, is that they fail to account in a non-circular way for the fact that a person is inherentl...

Consciousness as the Subject and Object of Physics: Towards a New Paradigm for the Physical Sciences

This paper investigates the role of consciousness for the field of physics. We propose that physics needs to include a systematic account of consciousness if it aims to offer a complete account of the physical world. The discovery of quantum mechanics, and of completely unified quantum field theories such as superstring theory, has resulted in a profound transformation in the world view of phys...

Managing oneself.

Throughout history, people had little need to manage their careers--they were born into their station in life or, in the recent past, they relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today, we must all learn to manage ourselves. What does that mean? According to Peter Drucker, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselv...

Health as expanding consciousness.