quarta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2012

Neurodiscourse of Human Phenomenon - part 1


When we talk here about "Human Phenomenon" we are referring specifically to aspects of the work of Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) with that title.
Teilhard de Chardin was a paleontologist, philosopher, theologian French Jesuit. One of his best known works in Paleontology occurred in 1929 with the discovery of Homo pequinensis. He has published around 400 scientific papers.
Teilhard de Chardin was one of the forerunners of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity to correlate various fields of study in their writings transversely. In "The Phenomenon of Man" speech he makes use of biological, anthropological, historical discourse, and even religious discourse about the "human."
In this work the author was also a forerunner of the concept of Complexity and Complex Thinking and Systems Thinking. He also made use of the term "Gaia" in a sense similar to what would later set the "Gaia Theory" of James Lovelock about the planet Earth like a living organism.
Thus, Teilhard de Chardin has built an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discourse about the human phenomenon. This discourse also includes notions about the nervous system connected to the discourse on human phenomenon.
Before that, it may be appropriate to speak of "discourse" and "neurodiscourse."
The term "discourse" can be used in many ways. Here we are not doing the colloquial use of the term, but the sense intermediate between philosophy and linguistics.
For Greek Philosophy “discourse”, in a larger sense than "speech", refers to the Logos. The most common meaning given to the term "logos" has been “to study" or "the knowledge about something”.  However, the Greek word "logos" primarily means "speech" in the dynamic sense of “discourse”.  So, for example, we can see in the Gospel of John the use of the term "logos" being translated as "word" or even in some languages as “verb”.
Thus, "logos" about something means "The discourse about a particular subject." So all the "technology" that we know are "speeches" or “discourses” about some "specialty".
In Greek philosophy that speech involves a "discursive knowledge" that can be established by a succession of reasons, or a logical succession that is different of the knowledge that is only a legacy by tradition or by some kind of intuition.
We do not mean that the suffix "logy" can only be used in this condition, but we want to emphasize the dynamic aspect that gets to be understood as "discourse." The discourse implies a "text", a structured speech that has certain goals and that is included in a "context".
There are many studies and discussions about various aspects of the discourse. As, for example, several forms of analysis of discourse. Among these is known  the study of Michel Foucault about the discourse, not necessarily accepted by all scholars.
Anyway, our focus is not exclusively about discussing what constitutes discourse analysis in all its aspects, but stressed that there is a "neurodiscourse" about the human phenomenon.
If there are discourses constructed differently, there may be a "neurodiscourse" that is structured from notions of neuroscience and neurology and has something specific to say about the human phenomenon, from Teilhard de Chardin, or from "knowledge-discourse" originated from neuroscientific paradigms.

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