This project aims for the writing of a divulgative interdisciplinary manuscript. The manuscript presents two agents. One of ‘Matter’, navigating in research areas of empirical investigation, and one of ‘Abstraction’, who somehow always seems lost, yet has more to offer than what meets the eye. ‘Abstraction’ accompanies ‘Matter’ through and through, and while searching for meaning, they just cannot avoid each other. Realising their search cannot be completed without the other; will the agents learn to trust their companion? Are themselves trustworthy to begin with? Can they unite to face their biggest challenge yet to come?
Using a two mind model from mindfulness-based practice, the Inner Dialogue project supervised by Prof. Christopher Rundle, and the council of the Collegio Superiore, investigates the different scientific framing and understanding of a seemingly simple, but psychologically more intimate and relevant question: Why and how does it matter, how we think about ourselves? the project disseminates dynamics from neurobiology and cognitive psychology, through thoughts of freudian and jungiananalytical psychology, to overarching writings from the History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes (Brad Inwood, 2023). The dialogue will bridge between the languages of the different fields explaining the ideas and core conclusion, while trying to avoid equivocation.
If one can accept the possibility of effect-multiplicity, the project is also an attempt to punch a hole in the illusory iron curtain between material sciences and humanities. As such, a satire fable, in which the blind leads the worldless, and every aspect of Reality is represented only probabilistically. The manuscript does not dictate “how it is”, rather invites the reader to contemplate meaning, even when all seems meaningless.
Made by Bálint Lóránt Hausz