IJDS 3.1 Sta. Maria & Largoza

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 3 Number 1 Fall 2008

On the Non-Distinction of Self and Other in the Notion of Personhood (Commentary on Chaudhary)
Madelene A. Sta. Maria
Gerardo L. Largoza
De La Salle University-Manila, The Philippines
pp. 55-68

ABSTRACT. Chaudhary’s (2008) analysis is viewed as compatible with recent findings in the neurosciences that the experience of personhood cannot be limited to “cold” individual rationality and “pure” monologic cognition. The search for, and evaluation of-- other minds is neurologically enabled. Chaudhary’s account of the dialogical self in Indian families as unavoidably relational and naturally sensitive to others seems to be the logical outcome of a neurobiological “circuit” for empathy.

Keywords: Malay culture, mirror neurons, talk, subjectified participation

On the Non-Distinction of Self and Other in the Notion of Personhood (Commentary on Chaudhary) Madelene A. Sta. Maria Gerardo L. Largoza De La Salle University-Manila, The Philippines	pp. 55-68

ABSTRACT. Chaudhary’s (2008) analysis is viewed as compatible with recent findings in the neurosciences that the experience of personhood cannot be limited to “cold” individual rationality and “pure” monologic cognition. The search for, and evaluation of-- other minds is neurologically enabled. Chaudhary’s account of the dialogical self in Indian families as unavoidably relational and naturally sensitive to others seems to be the logical outcome of a neurobiological “circuit” for empathy.

Keywords: Malay culture, mirror neurons, talk, subjectified participation