Is thought self-conscious?

June 13, 2009

Whatever systems of psychology may be, they are not static, finished purely logical structures that may be considered as so separate, complete and independent objects, to be analyzed apart from the conditions that gave rise to them. Perhaps, more often psychology has been subject to confusions, entanglements, and misunderstandings, many of which have their roots in the remote past. It is particularly significant that psychological interest develops not only late but incidentally. Thought apparently works from without inward; philosophy begins with cosmology, and science with astronomy and physics. This raises the fact that humans are interested in the world primarily because it contains the things they find important. These interests are quite simply taken for granted. Thus we can say that thought is unselfconscious. See more about this in the next post.