Heart, Not Souls, Of Consciousness in Asabano Ethnopsychology

IF 1.6 4区 心理学 0 PHILOSOPHY Journal of Consciousness Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.53765/20512201.30.5.207
R. Lohmann
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Ethnic cultural conceptualizations of consciousness often posit souls or other spirits, but these do not always address consciousness itself. This article describes an autochthonous model of consciousness that was current among the Asabano people of central New Guinea before first contact in the mid-twentieth century. In their conceptualization, one's own souls were not seen as essences of the self or agents of personal awareness. Rather, they merely inflected awareness, which was understood to occur in the heart. This autochthonous model of consciousness attributed selfish impulses and bodily strength to a 'little soul' and generous inclinations to a 'big soul'. The heart was the seat of thought and feeling and the recipient of the souls' proddings, and sensory perceptions originating in other body parts.
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阿萨巴诺民族心理学中意识的心而非灵魂
意识的民族文化概念通常假定灵魂或其他精神,但这些并不总是涉及意识本身。这篇文章描述了一种本土意识模式,在20世纪中期首次接触之前,这种模式在新几内亚中部的阿萨巴诺人中流行。在他们的概念化中,一个人的灵魂并没有被视为自我的本质或个人意识的代理人。相反,它们只是改变了意识,而意识被理解为发生在内心。这种本土意识模式将自私的冲动和体力归因于“小灵魂”,将慷慨的倾向归因于“大灵魂”。心脏是思想和感觉的所在地,是灵魂刺激和源自身体其他部位的感官感知的接受者。
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