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Overcoming Post-War Traumas and Confl icts through Dialogue in Distributed Cognition

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  • Banka Augustine

    (SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Non-local Faculty in Katowice, Techników 9, 40-326 Katowice, Poland)

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The following paper presents a proposal of a theoretical foundation for an application of distributed cognition in overcoming post-war traumas and related social conflicts. The distributed cognition theory states that the cognitive system is a structure distributed between internal-mental and external-objective social world representations across time and space. The basic issue of dialogue in distributed cognition is that distribution as information dissemination in each cognitive component functions in a systemic integrity. The presented perspective of overcoming traumas and war conflicts through dialogue refers to the following aspects of human activity: 1 - the perception of an environment as a construct of own life path and self-image; 2 - active creation of a desired world, life space and desired self; 3 - agentic cognitive mapping of an environment as a real, virtual and potential life space; 4 - a way of elastic control over an environment through discovering objectively present environmental affordances; 5 - achieving agency through discovering possibilities for action rather than barriers; 6 - making the cognitive system more flexible through a change in style of thinking to a constant state of openness to new meanings and values.

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  • Banka Augustine, 2017. "Overcoming Post-War Traumas and Confl icts through Dialogue in Distributed Cognition," Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, Sciendo, vol. 23(1-2), pages 15-48, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:jpepsi:v:23:y:2017:i:1-2:p:15-48:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/pepsi-2017-0001
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