Cognitive Inhibition and the Conscious Assent to Truth: A Newmanian Perspective
Newman Studies Journal 13 (2):40-52 (2016)
Abstract
When must a specific cognitive habit be called upon to solve a problem? In the
subject’s learning process, “knowing-to” is connected with a conscious particular
judgment of truth or “aha” moment enacting a new behavioral schema. This paper
comments on recent experiments supporting the view that a shift from automatic to
controlled forms of inhibition, involving conscious attention, is crucial for detecting
errors and activating a new strategy in complex cognitive situations. The part that
consciousness plays in this process agrees with its philosophical description as “judge
of truth”, and can thus be regarded as an essential precursor to the development of
higher cognitive habits. In this regard, John Henry Newman’s explanation of human
assent to truth, for which our consciousness of self is always prior, proves to be
decisive
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