Cultural Distortions of Self- and Reality-Perception

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Author: Whitehead, Charles

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 17, Numbers 7-8, 2010 , pp. 95-118(24)

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Abstract:

This essay explores the cultural and political processes which shape human worldviews. I examine the functions, mechanisms, and consequences of cultural distortions of perception, and the evolution of the western scientific worldview from its ancient animistic roots. From the evidence reviewed here I infer that collective deceptions are endemic in human culture, that physicalism is a collective deception and that the 'hard problem' of consciousness, defined in physicalist terms, is a false problem

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Email: drcwhitehead@aol.com

Publication date: 2010-01-01