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The Communication-Language Hypothesis for the Evolution of Consciousness

Veritas August 23, 2024 Diogo Fernando Massmann

This article is about the functional problem of consciousness, which concerns the questions of why consciousness evolved and whether it is relevant to organisms. The hypothesis defended is that consciousness has a communicative function capable of recruiting working memory, especially its language specialist subcomponents, and the cognitive-computational system, which has at its core a...

The Human Condition' and the Mystical Experience from Etty Hillesum's diaries

Veritas September 1, 2016

En el mbito de la situacin presente de crisis de lo humano, as como de la efusin actual del fenmeno mstico, esta reflexin se aproxima a la experiencia mstica contempornea a travs de uno de sus testigos: Etty Hillesum. El acercamiento a la trama narrativa de su diario hizo posible que el decir del ser, el decir sobre lo humano en la experiencia mstica se abriera paso a travs de un ejercicio...