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A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical HolismBridging Philosophies of Consciousness and Cosmology

A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical Holism: Bridging Philosophies of... [The aim of this chapter is to elucidate how Harris’s metaphysics of evolution purports to bridge the gap between mind and cosmos, thereby providing a phenomenological ontology. In Sect. 8.2, I outline Harris’s appeal to dynamic systems theory (DST) in neuroscience and his anticipation of theories depicting consciousness as “phase of matter”. Here, I consider possible implications this proposition has for autopoietic enactivism (AE). In Sect. 8.3, I reconsider the teleological anthropic principle (TAP) in light of Harris’s response to the hard problem and highlight some consequences this theory has for a naturalization of knowledge. I argue Rapoport’s and Rosen’s independent conceptions of Klein bottle logic serve as a suitable analogue of Harris’s reasoning and extension of AE’s appeal to second-order science. In the final Sect. 8.4, I outline Harris’s contention that consciousness is a scale and argue that the resulting model reveals a cosmological dimension for the enactivist paradigm.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical HolismBridging Philosophies of Consciousness and Cosmology

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-65028-5
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293 –344
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10.1007/978-3-030-65029-2_8
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[The aim of this chapter is to elucidate how Harris’s metaphysics of evolution purports to bridge the gap between mind and cosmos, thereby providing a phenomenological ontology. In Sect. 8.2, I outline Harris’s appeal to dynamic systems theory (DST) in neuroscience and his anticipation of theories depicting consciousness as “phase of matter”. Here, I consider possible implications this proposition has for autopoietic enactivism (AE). In Sect. 8.3, I reconsider the teleological anthropic principle (TAP) in light of Harris’s response to the hard problem and highlight some consequences this theory has for a naturalization of knowledge. I argue Rapoport’s and Rosen’s independent conceptions of Klein bottle logic serve as a suitable analogue of Harris’s reasoning and extension of AE’s appeal to second-order science. In the final Sect. 8.4, I outline Harris’s contention that consciousness is a scale and argue that the resulting model reveals a cosmological dimension for the enactivist paradigm.]

Published: Oct 13, 2021

Keywords: Hard problem; Pragmatism; Klein bottle logic; 4E paradigm

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