Consciousness as a cultivated faculty that develops according to social and historical conditions
Anthropology of Consciousness February 7, 2025 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.70001 via OpenAlex
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractConsciousness is not an innate, self-sustaining faculty but is instead a circumstantially cultivated aspect of the self, shaped by societal, personal, and historical contexts. This collection of articles challenges the widespread assumption, held by many scholars and religious doctrines, that consciousness exists independently and is always experienced as a whole, unoriginated given. The work argues against the view that consciousness operates in a state of independence from external circumstances.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Editorial or introduction to a journal issue Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Subject documents Independence probability theory Social consciousness State computer science Epistemology |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key finding | Consciousness is a circumstantially cultivated faculty of the self, contrary to the assumption that it is a self-sustaining, unoriginated faculty independent of societal, personal, and historical circumstances. |
Abstract
Abstract The articles in this issue of the journal support the claim that consciousness is a circumstantially cultivated faculty of the self. This is contrary to a widespread assumption held by numerous scholars, researchers, and religious doctrines that consciousness is a self‐sustaining unoriginated faculty given to the subject and which at all times is subjectively experienced with wholeness. The articles in this issue counter the belief that consciousness exists in a state of independence from societal, personal, and historical circumstances.