TITLE:
“Dual State”, “Double-Perspective” and “Cartesian-Like Dualism” Are Three Forms of Dualisms Emerging in Mind Like in a Matrioska
AUTHORS:
Enrico Bignetti
KEYWORDS:
Dualism, “Dual-State”, “Double-Perspective”, “Cartesian-Like Dualism”, “The Bignetti Model”, Unconscious Mind, Conscious Mind, 1st-Person Perspective, 3rd-Person Perspective
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.10 No.4,
November
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: After a long time, people are still
debating over “Cartesian-like Dualism” (CLD), i.e. towards the separation of
“res-extensa” from “res-cogitans”. Since we suspect that this is due to a
general attraction of mind towards the darkness of metaphysics, we have
investigated the mental origin of this attraction. In human mind, we can
envisage three different functional levels emerging one from the other like in
a Matrioska; the three levels cause the arousal of as many forms of “dualisms”:
1) The 1st-level corresponds to the “Dual-state” of mind, an archetypic dualism
made of Unconscious Mind (UM, the domain of biophysical/biochemical signals)
and Conscious Mind (CM, the domain of thoughts, images and sounds), genetically
committed to reciprocal and fruitful interactions. 2) the 2nd-level
corresponds to “Double-perspective” dualism; it emerges from CM’s splitting
into two opposite perspectives: the 1st-order perspective (1PP) (subjective,
emotional, Self-oriented, etc.) and the 3rd-order perspective (3PP) (rational,
objective, Self-detached, etc.), that are in psychological contraposition.
During individual growth, Ego-sense installs in CM with the illusion of
possessing FW, and dominates 1PP. Conversely, 3PP is typically interested in
scientific argumentations and investigations; so, 3PP confutes 1PP’s
convictions on scien-tific bases (e.g. 1PP’s conviction that the binomial
Ego-FW is real). Yet, on the one hand, 3PP hasn’t got a scientific alternative
to explain “who we really are”, on the other hand, 1PP exhibits a great success
in everyday life cognition. Then, we necessarily step over the dualism of the
3rd-level, “Cartesian-like Dualism” (CLD). The emotional origin of this CLD
holds back 1PP’s trick to claim its supremacy over 3PP.