Theory of Knowledge
Apologies : these pages have been translated from French to English by the author himself.....
Author : Edouard ASSEO Background (French) :
Telecommunications Engineer. Ph.D (French) in Philosophy Epistemology Edouardasseo@yahoo.com
The Theory of Consciousness was successfully presented as a thesis of Doctorate in Philosophy Epistemology at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
The starting point
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A short definition of consciousness |
Calling into question the postulate of objectivity |
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Knowledge of knowledge Knowledge of being and existing Knowledge of something-else (the thing) |
Subjectivity :what the thing is for me as opposed to : objectivity : what the thing is in itself |
SCIENCE
Science relies on the postulate of objectivity. If we want science to consider subjectivity, we have to call this postulate into question otherwise subjectivity will remain outside the scope of science. If we succeed we will come up with a global system encompassing both the physical world described by physics and the world of subjectivity. As already seen by Hegel, a theory of consciousness is necessarily a global system. The originality of the theory consists in calling into question the postulate of objectivity. This takes us to consider the « knowledge function C(x) »
CONSCIOUSNESS
Since consciousness is knowledge, we consider the knowledge function by which knowledge knows itself and knows what is not itself : the world.
This takes us to determine the conditions at which C(C) is defined and meaningful. These conditions are defined as the Conscience relations and C(C) is said to be reflexive.
The Theory is composed of three documents presented below, but there are pages which can be directly accessed for a more convenient reading :
Introduction to the Postulate of objectivity and to the Conscience relations (simplified versions).
Introduction to : The Conscience relations and subjectivity
Access by the Postulate of objectivity to : the Conscience relations and physics
FOREWORD
The Theory of Consciousness is in no way a revocation of science, its methods, its spirit. Calling into question the postulate of objectivity can be compared to calling into questions the postulate of Euclid, which did not revoke geometry, but instead, took it to completion.
Introduction to the Theory of consciousness English) :consult our publisher : Edilivre
Theory of knowledge (French)
In this document, it is shown that the fundamental relations of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity can be derived from the Conscience relations. This result leads to a new paradigm in Physics.
(This document is intended for physicists).
A conscious system is a system which implements the Conscience relations. The main characteristics of human subjectivity are analyzed and connected to the conscience relations ; the principle of operation of the brain and the corresponding architectures are derived.
(This document is intended for cognitive science specialists).
The results which have been reached are placed in a philosophical perspective. Central in the theory are the concept of duration which belongs to Bergson and the concept of intentional aiming to Husserl, but the Theory of Consciousness essentially is a reformulation of the Hegel system. As such it gives a vision of the universe as an all-inclusive whole including the objective world and the subjective world, the disadvantage being that an overall understanding can only be reached by reading the three parts of the theory.
Architecture of the theory
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