Meaning Emergence and Complexity in a Post-Cartesian Psychology

Abstract

It is stated that the target of a postcartesian psychology with a pragmatic and antifoundationalist approach to knowledge are the intersubjective implicit processes of meaning construction by means of which tacit meanings, that allow the emergency of immediate experience, are generated, maintained, and changed. It is suggested that these processes may be described as dynamic emergent patterns that arise out of the integrated activity of variable collectives at different levels of description. It is suggested that these processes may bc understood as intersubjective structural moments that operate as a self-organizing complex system whose dynamics can be depicted as non-lineal interactions among its components. Finally, it is suggested that psychology should incorporate some of the ideas of complex systems theory in order to study thc scaffolding of those intersubjective structural moments.