The first step in education is a tour of the brainmindself. The 12-15 year old needs to grasp: 'I am' a blank slate. My identity is merely my given familial, institutional, and environmental surroundings.
The first step in education is a tour of the brainmindself. The 12-15 year old needs to grasp: 'I am' a blank slate. My identity is merely my given familial, institutional, and environmental surroundings. Radically different worlds would have created a radically different I. If not earlier, then surely University Philosophy and Psychology should provide it in the first few years. Physicalism is the final story of world and self. The human story has been written. Consciousness was overplayed. It is part of self awareness and is enjoyable. But the key for all people, and students, is to tell a history of their self. That history must include: why was i placed in these environments, cultural structures, and institutional structures. Foucault highlights the looseness of institutions. 'I am' a talking meerkat in the Matrix (virtual reality). If the baby and child's brain only receives signals of "meerkat," the child's brain will think its self a meerkat. 'You' are a blank slate. Physicalism and Constructionism is the first year of University. (Mixed order) This is all you need freshman year. Along with math. Biology. And accompanying discourses. Hofstadter Strange Loops Metzinger Ego Tunnel Michael Graziano Conscious and the Social Brain Alison Gopnik Scientist in the Crib Berger and Luckmann Social Construction of Reality Seth Being You Frith Making Up the Mind (Others: Brainwise by Churchland. Consciousness Explained. Dennett. Blank Slate by Pinker, Judith Butler Undoing Gender, Feldman Barret, etc) submitted by /u/Double-Fun-1526 [link] [comments]
