Consciousness
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Definition
Applications
Role of Consciousness Which is Different from Nature and Culture [1]
"From a strictly scientific perspective, we think of human beings as nothing but the children of nature and culture and that pushes you towards a kind of deterministic view. What causes your behaviour? Well it’s either nature or culture because there isn’t anything else … but that isn’t how the mythological story lays itself out … because it says there is something else … and that is, whatever your consciousness is. That consciousness seems to be able to work with nature and culture in a nondeterministic manner in order to bring itself forward. It is virtually the plot of any story. The story of the development of the individual.
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[1] 2017 Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation (a quote from the first 20 minutes of the lecture)
