Autore
Bianchin, Matteo

Titolo
Come è possibile una coscienza falsa?
Periodico
Politica & società
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 3 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 351 - Pagina finale: 374

The phenomenology of alienation is rich, yet it is far from clear how to account for aparadox it raises about consciousness. Consciousness cannot be said to be false in thesame way beliefs can be. Talks of alienation rather suggest that we may happen to undergoexperiences that look as if they are not ours. The paradox is therefore different,and far deeper, than paradoxes and irrationalities affecting beliefs in self-deception,wishful thinking and the like. As a consequence, explanations working at the level ofbeliefs and their etiology seem at least incomplete. I argue that a complete accountmay involve the distortion of mechanisms operating in social cognition. Simulationtheories of mind reading, in particular, seem to provide the theoretical tools to explainhow subjective experience can turn out to look alienated or "false".



SICI: 2240-7901(2012)3:3<351:CÈPUCF>2.0.ZU;2-F
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