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Passagens de tempo
No full textO livro é uma viagem pelo conceito de tempo, permeada por desafios e questionamentos, na tentativa de refletir sobre este instigante e intangível enigma. Fruto de uma aprofundada pesquisa e de sua própria vivência como médico psiquiatra, professor de psicologia e filósofo, o autor apresenta um ensaio em que dialogam filosofia, psicologia, ciência, literatura e outros campos do saber. Com uma linguagem permeada de prosa e poesia, Maldonato tece considerações sobre o tempo, os indivíduos e o mundo, além de apresentar ao leitor uma densa bibliografia sobre o tema
A MENTE PLURAL - BIOLOGIA, EVOLUÇÃO E CULTURA
No full textO livro reúne ensaios sobre questões centrais da ciência e da cultura contemporâneas, como a matéria do pensamento, a mente complexa, o gene altruísta, a psicobiologia da guerra e o horizonte narratológico da identidade, entre outras. Segundo o autor, a grande maioria dos casos de desenvolvimento do saber humano só foi possível devido à violação das fronteiras disciplinares, pela circulação dos conceitos, pela formação de disciplinas novas e mais complexas. A formulação de Mauro Maldonato, contida nos textos de ‘A mente plural’, é um exemplo da noção de ‘pensamento da complexidade’ que o psiquiatra italiano desenvolve dentro de uma trilha aberta pela ciência e pensamento do nosso tempo
Decision Making. Towards an Evolutionary Theory of rationality.
No full textSince the dawn of time human beings have had to make decisions. Wise or foolish, thoughtful or instinctive, altruistic or selfish, decision-making – from the most simple to the most complex – enables people to confront and overcome constant environmental challenges. Yet, despite the momentousness of decision-making in adaptability terms, men and women ignore the actual process that takes place in their minds when, for example, they invest in the stock market, buy a car, trust a person they just met, or simply decide to go to the movies. While some decisions are taken in a few seconds (when we act impulsively without time to evaluate the process), other decisions require considerable cognitive effort and accurate cost-benefit analysis. But is it only the optimal decision that deserves to be called rational? If this is the case, how then can we explain the wisdom of our instincts, of our emotions, of our ‘sixth sense’? Moreover, what is the role of subjectivity, free will, desire, culture in the decision-making process?
... Research on decision-making has had a long and controversial history. The idea of a perfect rationality has more recently given way to the idea of a rationality conscious of its incompleteness – to a process that cannot be expressed or conceived in logical or rational terms. In this ground-breaking book, Mauro Maldonato reinterprets the secular controversy about the nature of human decision-making in light of recent discoveries in cognitive neurosciences and new research (neuroeconomics and neuroethics). At the end of this literary excursion along a stunning archipelago of rationality, morality, emotion and consciousness, the reader is provided with the means to view and assess personal decision-making and resultant action in a completely different way – a way that impacts positively on human interaction and psychological wholeness
The Archipelago of Consciousness. The Invisible Sovereignty of Life
No full textFew dilemmas in the history of human thought have aroused debates so exciting as that on consciousness. In the past, few scholars recognized scientific dignity to the issue, perhaps because of its subjective nature. Conditioned by limitations of the introspective method and by the unnatural opposition between conscious and unconscious, the study of consciousness has been the exclusive prerogative of philosophy, literature and theology, strengthening the prejudice that separates humanistic and scientific culture. Mauro Maldonato sets out to establish a fruitful dialogue between different disciplines, investigating consciousness from points of view that shape awareness of ourselves and of the world.
For every one of us, consciousness is a primary, immediate, permanent fact – the core of life itself. Why, then, are we so far from forming any definitive picture of what it is, and what it means for us? The study of the biological bases for consciousness has shown how physics is incapable of providing credible solutions; the lack of means to describe the interactions between neuronal structures and qualitative experiences leads to an investigative dead end. But this explanatory shortfall does not authorise us to postulate the existence of an inaccessible sancta sanctorum. A scientific project to naturalise consciousness – attempting to ground our relational life and human action in biology – has to recognise issues of complexity, and the irreversibility and historical contingency of our individual phenomenalistic experience. The groundbreaking Archipelago of Consciousness follows the author's well received writings on Natural Logic, Decision Making and the Predictive Brain
FOCUS: Complexity and Psychology Guest Editors: Giuseppe Mininni and Mauro Maldonato
No full textRecently the complexity of discursive practices has been widely acknowledged by the humanities and social sciences. In fact, to know anything is to know in terms of one or more discourse. The “discursive turn” in psychology may be considered as a new paradigm oriented to a correct study of (wo)man only if it is able to grasp the semiotical ground of psychic experience both as an “effort after meaning” and as a “struggle over meaning.” In this sense the notion of “diatext” has been proposed as a contribution in working out a psychosemiotical approach to understand how the discursive practices assign subject-positions to the agents of each interlocution scenario
Posthuman. Consciousness and Pathic Engagement
No full textThe posthuman dfines a new model of existence and leaves an emerging anthopological identity open to dialogue with eteroreferential (otherness) in "bio-techno-informatics". This requires the developement of a commensurate adequacy of emotions and affections (the pathic)
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