Asymmetrical 2

<p>The arguments of this essay cover three broadly related topics. The first is concerned with ontological thinking as it has evolved over the last 900 years under the pressure of scientific and technological development.</p><p>This historical sketch provides the background and context for a re-examination in the second part of the nature of conceptual thinking intuition the role of heuristic modelling the function of language and the fallibility of the human mind and in the third of the interiority of human experience subjectivity self-awareness personal identity jeopardy autonomy and freedom.</p><p>By re-analyzing these concepts we can hope to create better maps of the complex inter-dependencies between the structures of conceptual thinking and the experience of an inner life that determine the human condition.</p>