http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/suhler-and-churchland-on-control-conscious-and-otherwise/ Sat, 25 May 2013 20:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/suhler-and-churchland-on-control-conscious-and-otherwise/#comment-15455 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:18:21 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=8124#comment-15455 It has seemed to me that one avenue of “rebalancing the inquiry”, as Suhler and Churchland put it, is something along the lines of theorists standing back and noting the overall social function of law, such as statistical deterrence and the social needs of purging and cleansing. Ultimately, it seems to me, this must – and will – counter balance the importance notion of discrete instances of ‘justice’. But Suhler and Churchland seem to provide a very different way of “rebalancing the inquiry,” noting the importance of the sophistication of the unconscious mind, thereby providing a more scientifically accurate picture of ‘control’. Removing the illusory tight line between conscious and unconscious control and investigating all the data we have from science to date appears to be necessary for moving forward with a philosophically stout version of situationism. Although Suhler and Churchland criticize the ‘Frail Control’ hypothesis, it is precisely John Doris’ failure to appreciate the sophistication of the unconscious mind they are after. So there does not appear to be a clear discrepancy between the working theory here at The Situationist and Suhler and Churchland’s thesis.

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