Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775
Dialectics: Being-Nothing-Becoming
When we think Being it immediately is Nothing, and Nothing is immediately Being. The very thinking of them is their vanishing, and thinking is what a thought truly is. It is no logical nonsense to say the truth we have experienced: Being is Being vanishing to Nothing, and vice versa.
The natural method involves seeking consistency and equilibrium among different modes of analysis applied to the study of some mental phenomenon…In the case of dreams, phenomenology, will supply us with first-person reports about how dreams seem, especially how particular dreams seem from the point of view of the person who has the dream.
The mental sciences—psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience—are needed to provide answers to a host of questions that are not answered by how things seem, even if we take how they seem to be as how they really are for the dreamer. The mental sciences will tell us about the objective side of dreams.
—Owen Flanagan, Dreaming Souls
The continuum of dissociation
Christian Scharfetter, Ego‐Fragmentation in Schizophrenia: A Severe Dissociation of Self‐Experience
The ‘Cognitive Science Hexagon’ redrawn from the original cover of the Sloan Foundation’s 1978 State of the Art Report on Cognitive Science