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- Title
A LITERARY TRINITY FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
- Authors
Teske, John A.
- Abstract
The cognitive sciences may be understood to contribute to religion-and-science as a metadisciplinary discussion in ways that can be organized according to the three persons of narrative, encoding the themes of consciousness, relationality, and healing. First-person accounts are likely to be important to the understanding of consciousness, the “hard problem” of subjective experience, and contribute to a neurophenomenology of mind, even though we must be aware of their role in human suffering, their epistemic limits, and their indirect causal role in human behavior and subsequent experience. Second-person discussions are important for understanding the empathic and embodied relationality upon which an externalist account of mind is likely to depend, increasingly uncovered and supported by social neuroscience. Third-person accounts can be better understood in uncovering the us/them distinctions that they encode and healing the dangerous tribalisms that put an interdependent and communal world increasingly at risk.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; science; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind); NEUROSCIENCES -- Social aspects; PHENOMENOLOGY; SUBJECTIVITY; CAUSATION (Philosophy); EMPATHY
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2010, Vol 45, Issue 2, p469
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01096.x