Module handbook generic text for modules in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences
Course information for Professional Graduate Certificate in Education and Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
Student Handbook, agendas and slides for module 1 and 2
…e world. This network is modular, with each module or mini-self responsible for a function/action of the individual in the world. This centre responds to the needs of the organism mainly unconsciously but the individual may become conscious when the usual functioning is delayed because of the ambiguity, complexity of a task or with a provision of greater leisure. Finally the self can also be seen as a narrative construction which is a product of human nature designed to explain the view of the self that we consciously and ling! uistically conceive. This should be consistent with the phenomenology of our experience, but should also make sense from the metaphysical perspective. Self-models or various stories of ?me? are created because of our ability to use language. They may correspond to actual mini-selves or perhaps - not at all. A combination or potential synthesis of these self-models can be called a centre of identity.rnBy separating these notions of self for practical purposes we can propose three corre…