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The Background: A Tool of Potentiality

Contrary to the literal denotation that links the background to the past and the recall of memory the author of the chapter claims that the function of the background is to enable our acting in the world in an anticipatory way, that is, by providing a cognitive organism with a horizon of possible modes of acting without reference or reliance on conscious thought and deliberation. Accordingly, the background is understood as a true organ of potentiality. He further assumes that “concepts, thoughts and reflection are late products in the chain of mental processing. When they get shaped within experience, and when they become objects of awareness, much has already been cognitively carried out (and pre-pared) in the backstage of the mind. Rather than being preconceived plans for action, thoughts appear to be conscious protocols of the processes accomplished within the background. The once implicitly guessed is then legitimized in awareness as real.“

mind, background, skill, unconscious, potentiality

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