Beyond mechanicism and cognitivism: Relationship and experience. Or the anxiety of the first cause. Notes on the article by Stefano Fissi

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Ugo Morelli
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/4
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 607-614 File size 56 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2024-004005
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A difficult dimension to accept is the self-founding one, for us humans who tend to constantly give ourselves over to the search for a first cause and end up finding it. Yet what distinguishes us and distinguishes our life is precisely knowledge understood as a permanent production of worlds through the very process of living. An epistemological orientation based on a body para-digm and that pays attention to relationship and experience can contribute to the understanding of the “hard problem” of consciousness and of the relationship between affective and cognitive neu-roscience, on one hand, and psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, on the other.

Keywords: Epi-stemology; Body; Relation; Experience; We-centric space

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Ugo Morelli, Oltre il meccanicismo e il cognitivismo: la relazione e l’esperienza. Ovvero l’ansia della causa prima. Note a margine dell’articolo di Stefano Fissi “Il confronto tra modelli nelle teorie della coscienza e nella psicoanalisi con particolare riguardo alla elaborazione predittiva” in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 4/2024, pp 607-614, DOI: 10.3280/PU2024-004005