“An Incomplete Theory of the Mind”

A dialogical conception of Habitus: allowing human freedom and restoring the social basis of learning

“…It may seem new to many Westerners the idea of dyadic conversational structures (an I-thou structural unity) being the locus of consciousness as the sole or primary arbiters of social action; rather than each individual solitary independent autonomous rational processing (Akrivou and Bradbury-Huang, 2014 ). This supports revising the conception of human brain and cognitive processing, opposing a human brain operating via top-down predictions about sensory inputs and fully predicts the sensory information being received (Benacer and Murillo, 2012 ). Conversation is dynamically releasing new shared cognition pathways as one gradually learns to listen, feel, respond and engage in thoughtful responsiveness to a specific other actor.…”

Towards (more) integrity in academia, encouraging long-term knowledge creation and academic freedom

“…Advances across social, brain and humanistic studies realise that the very understanding of habitus dynamics may not necessarily be a deterministic, relativist or objectivist view of truth, but instead the experience of social and individual agency may be due to incomplete conceptions of how the world is (e.g. Gadamer 1965, Bernacer & Murillo 2012, Akrivou & Todorow 2014, Bernacer & Murillo 2014. These works draw from Aristotle and virtue theory of society, brain and mind science, and philosophical dialogue and discourse ethics to show that with a change of our assumptions and commitments we can actively create the future in which we can all flourish, rather than habitually respond to existing stimuli of fragmentation and antagonism.…”

Teleological markers: Seven lines of hypotheses around Dennett's theory of habits

“…On the other hand, as Bernácer and Murillo point out, for Clark, cognition is "some sort of representation" (thesis A) (Bernácer and Murillo 2012).…”