Escepticismo humeano acerca del yo y conexinionismoautoorganizativo: algunas consecuencias cognitivas
Abstract
We analyze some implications of Humean scepticism regarding the existence of a
permanent and substantial Self that would precede and coordinate experience.
Two proposals are presented: Francisco Varela’s theory of selforganizing
aggregates and William James’ thesis about ideas that know. We then examine
three problems raised by “no-self” stances of the James-Varela kind, viz., the
problems of identity, of temporality and of intentionality (as purpose). We sketch
some solutions and we suggest that the consideration of a “no-self” paradigm is
still a matter of speculative philosophy.
