Uma coisa desse mundo : auto-organização, neuroplasticidade e epigênese da consciência

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Charles Irapuan Ferreira
• Orientador(a): Oliveira Junior, Nythamar Hilario Fernandes de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Materialismo; Neurodinâmica das Emoções; Agência; Neuroplasticidade; Epigênese da Consciência
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7558

This study presents the thesis I have been calling “epigenesis of consciousness”. The main problem addressed here is how to account for a strictly materialist explanation of consciousness without resorting to an unrestricted attachment to any sort of reductive materialism and determinist naturalism. My working hypothesis takes as its starting point the Spinozist monism to state: 1. that consciousness emerges from the self-organizing matter; 2. that this self-organization follows a pattern, a layered formation which runs from the peripheral nervous system to the neocortex; 3. that this process is related to the neuroplasticity of the brain tissue and can be mapped by dynamic systems theory. Starting from this hypothesis, I apply the neurodynamics of emotions to map the three stages behind the uprising of consciousness: 1. the live present; 2. Memory; 3. Thought. The aim of this work is to state that consciousness is an evolutionary, co-emergent, subject-to-variation process, merging determinism and freedom in nature.