Culture, the Crack’d Mirror, and the Neuroethics of Disease

Human beings are sensorimotor coupled to the actual world and also attuned to the symbolic world of culture and the techniques of adaptation that culture provides. The self-image and self-shaping mediated by that mirror directly affects the neurocognitive structures that integrate human neural activ...

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Главный автор: Gillett, Grant (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Cambridge Univ. Press 2016
В: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Год: 2016, Том: 25, Выпуск: 4, Страницы: 634-646
Другие ключевые слова:B neurocognitive structures
B Autopoiesis
B neural activity
B Neuroethics
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Итог:Human beings are sensorimotor coupled to the actual world and also attuned to the symbolic world of culture and the techniques of adaptation that culture provides. The self-image and self-shaping mediated by that mirror directly affects the neurocognitive structures that integrate human neural activity and reshape its processing capacities through top-down or autopoietic effects. Thus a crack’d mirror, which disrupts the processes of enactive self-configuration, can be disabling for an individual. That is exactly what happens in postcolonial or immigration contexts in which individuals’ cultural adaptations are marginalized and disconnected in diverse and often painful and disorienting ways. The crack’d mirror is therefore a powerful trope for neuroethics and helps us understand the social and moral pathologies of many indigenous and immigrant communities.
ISSN:1469-2147
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180116000360