NoumenArt: Art & Consciousness Project

Masters Paper [Under Construction]*  

• Section 1: INTRODUCTION & Background… 1    
  • 1.1 Research Subject & Areas. 3  
    • Focus. 3  
    • Purpose. 4  
    • Significance. 4  
  • 1.2 Theoretical Framework.. 6  
    • Metaphilosophy. 6  
    • Property Dualism… 7  
      • Table 1: Dualism vs.  Physicalism… 8  
    • Embodied Mind.. 9
      • Cognitive Unconscious. 11
      • Primary Stipulation. 13
    • Teleological Approach.. 14
  • 1.3 Organizational Structure & Components. 15
    • Interdisciplinary Approach.. 15
    • Components. 16
• Section 2: Ignoring the Hardest Problems.. 18
  • 2.1 DeQuining Qualia.. 18
    • Qualia or lived Experience. 20
    • Ineffable. 21
    • Intrinsic. 21
    • Private. 22
    • Directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness. 22
  • 2.2 Commonalities between Religious & Creative Experience.. 25
  • 2.3 Numinous vs. Mystical Experience.. 30
    • Buddhism and the Illusory Self. 32
      • Figure 1: Causal Relationship of Aggregates. 34
    • Methodological and Grounded Individual Inquiry. 34
• Section 3: Creative Cognitive Practice.. 38
  • 3.1 SEER Model of Creative Practice.. 39
  • 3.2 Noesis Generates  Extended Mind Practices. 41
    • Metacognition: Internal Monitoring and Control. 41
    • External Memory Aids to Autobiographical Memory. 44
  • 3.3 Ritual Develops Enactive Perception Skills. 45
    • Source Monitoring.. 45
      • Figure 2: Internal Reflection vs. External Perception. 45
    • Autobiographical Memory. 47
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        • FINALE.. 51
          • References Cited. 52
          • Further Reference.. 54
        • REFERENCES.. 52 

 

 *Note 14/09/09: I wonder if I’ll ever get over the trauma of my master’s paper and post it on the site? I can’t even find the electronic copy of it!