Le neuroscienze alla scoperta di memoria e autocoscienza. riflessioni sulla complessità intenzionale

Abstract

Today, the cognitive sciences refuse to describe the mind as a process of given information, as a symbolic algorithm which produces copies of the real world; rather, cognition is an emergence of meaning, not just a process of shaping the world. At the same time, consciousness becomes auto-consciousness: knowing the world, the consciousness knows itself as a subject of knowledge. This article is inspired by Mirko Di Bernardo’s book Neuroplasticity, Memory and Sense of Self. An Epistemological Approach: it aims to show how the most recent developments in the field of neurosciences make it possible to develop a new approach to the mind-body problem. This approach overcomes dualism, materialism and reductionism through a teleonomic and informational approach to complex intentionality. Thanks to this new approach, interdisciplinary researches could be developed even in bioeducational sciences.