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In philosophy, noetics is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intellect. Noetic topics include the doctrine of the agent/patient intellect (Aristotle, Averroes) and the doctrine of the Divine Intellect (Plotinus).
An individual can only truly understand the concept of noetics through personal experience. In fact noetics is a biological science of the mind; a personal experience of God through revelation and therefore developing conscious awareness of certain realities in an individual. The personal revelation may be a first and unique to an individual (genius) but may also be shared by many individuals as time goes by. The magic of noetics is how the conscious awareness occurs in the mind (brain) through the personal experience of the environment and perceptual cues (man made or natural) experienced by the individual. Ultimately experiencing noetics (knowing) is a privilege because it brings you closer to God through pure, timeless understanding of the truth of all things and this is achieved through a bonding combination of personal experience (which may be led by others), physical environment and the way the individuals brain structures respond.
Contemporary use
Since the 1970s the term "noetics" has been employed by several authors like Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol and others who write about consciousness and spirituality.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences proposes noetic sciences as "how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world".
Many TV and film creations, such as Fringe and the X-men film series, have adapted the concepts of "noetic sciences" into creating fantasy and soft science fiction entertainment.
See also
- Traditional philosophy
- Consciousness studies
- Alternative philosophy and parapsychology
- New Thought
- Integral thought and Ken Wilber
- Institute of Noetic Sciences and Christian de Quincey
- Noosphere
- Panpsychism
- Technoetic
- Classical Psychology
References
- Daniel D. De Haan (2010). "Aristotle's De Anima: A Common Point of Departure for Averroistic and Thomistic Noetics?".
- Richard T. Wallis. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. SUNY Press, 1992, p. 99ff.
- Institute of Noetic Sciences. <http://www.noetic.org/>
Further reading
- Davidson, H.A., Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect. Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Kenny, Anthony, Aquinas on Mind, Routledge, 1994.
- Brentano, Franz, Sensory and Noetic Consciousness: Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint III, International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
- de Quincey, C., Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship, Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2005.
- Frankl, V., "Man's Search for Meaning", Beacon Press, 2006.
External links
The dictionary definition of noetic at Wiktionary
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