Consciousness as a cultivated faculty that develops according to social and historical conditions
Anthropology of Consciousness February 7, 2025 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.70001 (opens in new tab)
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| Keywords | Subject documents Independence probability theory Social consciousness State computer science Epistemology Social science Religious belief Environmental ethics |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness is a circumstantially cultivated faculty of the self, contrary to the assumption that it is a self-sustaining unoriginated faculty. |
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.