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Consciousness, mind, and spirit: three levels of human cognition

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  • Andrej Ule

    (Faculty of Arts – University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Abstract

The article elucidates three important concepts and realities that refer to cognitive phenomena and are often (mistakenly) used as synonyms: consciousness (slo. zavest), mind (slo. um), and spirit (slo. duh). They present three levels of human cognition: individual-experiential, individual-mental, and trans-individual-mental. Simply put: the concept of consciousness pertains to the waking mental life of a human being, while the concept of mind pertains to the ability and activity to consciously comprehend and understand contents and objects of human activity. I delineate three “types” of spirit: personal spirit, objective spirit, and the objectification of spirit in productions of human culture; I have doubts, however, about the existence of cosmic or super-cosmic dimensions of spirit, although some interpretations of quantum physics and modern cosmology suggest that such dimensions are possible.

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  • Andrej Ule, 2015. "Consciousness, mind, and spirit: three levels of human cognition," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 13(4), pages 488-500.
    • Handle: RePEc:zna:indecs:v:13:y:2015:i:4:p:488-500
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    Cited by:

    1. Olga Markic, 2015. "Naturalism and the experiential perspective," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 13(4), pages 534-539.
    2. Laszlo Ropolyi, 2015. "Representations and inhomogeneous beings," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 13(4), pages 540-547.
    3. Robert Burgan, . "Once More about Human Nature, Enhancement and Substitution [Ešte raz o ľudskej prirodzenosti, zdokonaľovaní a substitúcii]," E-LOGOS, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 0.

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    Keywords

    consciousness; mind; spirit; conceptual thought; objective spirit; personal spirit;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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