Conceptual Understructure of Human Experience is an interdisciplinary study of communication processes in the fields of fine art, humanities, and sciences that provides a revolutionary philosophical interpretation of the cognitive patterns involved in these and other human expressions. Rather than turning to brain scans or other forms of neuroimaging, it analyzes discrete human expressions, looking at them as a function of the maps established by the brain during the very early pre-symbolic and pre-linguistic stages of cognition.
Conceptual Understructure of Human Experience argues that there is a common understructure to all forms of expression, and it suggests the presence of at least two scales in human conceptualizations. Those scales, it further suggests, converge into a single expression that can be experienced collectively, publicly, and/or privately through comparison and concatenation processes.
A surprisingly approachable text, Conceptual Understructure of Human Experience is sure to appeal to anyone interested in human cognition. No special knowledge of neuroscience, linguistics, or mathematics is needed to benefit from reading.
This book is the first and main volume of this title. It presents Raykowski's doctoral thesis. The second volume, sold separately, contains images of the artworks Raykowski created during the course of his research.
About the Author: Wes Raykowski, PhD, has spent the past several years involved in cognitive research that was carried out from an unusual perspective: He investigated languages, mathematics, science, engineering, and fine art to determine whether or not there was a single conceptual structure that they all share. It is from this engagement that he formed the basis of his theory on the common cognitive patterns that can be found in most, if not all, human expression. Raykowski has thus far written two books in a planned series on the subject, Conceptual Understructure of Human Experience, and its companion title, Conceptual Understructure of Human Experience: Volume 2 (Artworks).
