Thinking Aloud

All above-mentioned constructions of the intuitive experience are based on the idealized model of intellectual life. It’s the creativity in its broadest sense. Indeed, literary works, paintings and our favorite movies are something other than dry academic treatises. They don’t put the desire to find a generally valid truth first. Rather they emphasize bursting out something unexpected, extraordinary or simply what captures the attention of many in an incredible way. To be frank we must say that scientific discoveries are made likewise. They seem to be an insight experience to their authors rather than a result of dull rational work.

Such concepts can be drawn from some philosophically-minded psychologists and psychiatrists who explain the origin of schizophrenia with the minimal cogito concept. It shall be noted that the programming code of cogito can be accessed by external social experience together with multiple internal structure of the mind. Thus, in most cases, talking about the human self we mean we’re dealing with narrative cogito, that can be viewed as an independent phenomenon provided we use classical dialectic categories. On the one hand, it always contains a certain image of human experience

Although this question is essential for psychiatry, for example, has only a philosophic answer. On one hand, it’s impossible to switch off the human Ego like any other mental function and see how the body works afterwards. On the other hand, the neurobiology is quite far from finding the sweet home of cogito among the brain structures. And finally, a question like that about cogito will remain unanswered due to its specific position. Let’s explain it with the help of some global constructions. After a human is born he or she becomes a person due to a complex process of upbringing.

Another thing is the philosophy traditionally uses cogito in a cognitive situation analysis. As a motto we’ll take the title of the founder’s of the American pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce’s, article How to Make Our Ideas Clear. The question the philosophers answer in the shortest and the simplest way can be put as follows. How can one prove the idea of a thing shaped in one’s mind complies with the original – an object working outside the mind? That’s the framework for Descartes’ cogito to be born as a primary condition for the knowledge.