Stream of consciousness

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The stream of consciousness means that an individual has a flow of their own thoughts, feelings and ideas. So for example your impressions of a day, your memories et cetera. These conscious experiences in the brain are continuous which means that they’re no discrete ‘separate’ actions (Voinovich & Jamieson, 2003). Edmund Husserl had a phenomenological philosophy which contains the stream of consciousness (Campbell, 1981). According to Husserl the stream of consciousness is based on three main principles, namely:

- Intentionality: how the external world is experienced by the individual

- Superposition: how (non)sensory properties are presented in perception - Temporality: a time perspective, all objects have a perception of past, present and projected future (Ishai, 2002).

Alfred Schütz uses this philosophy of Edmund Husserl for his own approach to society on the analysis of the social experience of the individual.

The stream of consciousness is used in literature as well.

References

Campbell, T. (1981). Seven Theories of Human Society. Oxford: Clavedon Press.

Ishai, A. (2002). Streams of Consciousness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Vol. 14, No. 6. P. 823-833.

Voinovich, V. and Jamieson, J. (2003). Stream of Consciousness. New Zealand Slavonic Journal. P. 165-169.

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Published by Renate van Haaren, --RenateVanHaaren 21:19, 8 October 2012 (CEST)