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A narrative method for consciousness research.

José-Luis Díaz¹

¹Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico City, Mexico.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

|November 23, 2013

Summary

Phenomenological texts, like internal monologs, can model consciousness streams. A new narrative method extracts and represents mental processes from these texts for consciousness research.

Keywords:

conscious process models consciousness research dynamic system model heterophenomenology interior monolog narrative method neurophenomenology phenomenological texts

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Philosophy of Mind

Background:

Phenomenological accounts, particularly first-person narrations of mental processes, offer unique insights into human consciousness.
Internal monologs and 'think aloud' narratives are considered prime examples for modeling phenomenological streams of consciousness.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and present a narrative method for extracting and depicting conscious processes, operations, contents, and states from phenomenological texts.
To justify the relevance of introspective language and narrative analyses for consciousness research.
To examine methodological requirements for consciousness inference from narrative texts.

Main Methods:

Establishing operational criteria for selecting or producing suitable phenomenological texts.
Developing a system for detecting text items indicative of conscious contents and processes.
Creating a procedure to represent these items using formal dynamic systems like Petri nets.
Applying the method to analyze an excerpt from James Joyce's Ulysses and evaluating inter-observer agreement on another text.

Main Results:

The study outlines a three-step narrative method for analyzing phenomenological texts.
The method was applied to a stream-of-consciousness excerpt from Ulysses, demonstrating its utility.
Inter-subjective evaluation of mental attributions from another text showed measurable agreement.

Conclusions:

Phenomenological texts, especially internal monologs, provide valuable data for modeling consciousness.
The proposed narrative method offers a systematic approach to extract and represent conscious elements from text.
This methodology contributes to consciousness research by bridging literary analysis with formal system modeling.