Simple Unawareness

by Analisa Hardaway, June 2015

900 words

3 pages

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Psychology recognizes knowledge as one of the possession forms. Thus, person that is dedicated to search for knowledge finds satisfaction in it, since awareness for him or her is observed as aim itself. Not unawareness, but its understanding stimulates to search for knowledge. Ignoramus knows nothing about personal narrow-mindedness. Thus, the one, who searches for knowledge, has simple unawareness as constant reminder about its presence by means of longing for research and investigation. Therefore, sometimes reliability of knowledge is negated because of unawareness.

As D. Rumsfeld admitted in his book Known Unknowns, there are the matters that we comprehend we know, and there are so-called known unknowns, which are realized in the fact that there are such ideas and facts that we currently understand as those that we do not know for this moment. However, additionally, there are such matters that are left as unknown unknowns, since people do not guess they might exist in this reality.

Referring to Argyris (2006), awareness could be determined as subtype of objective reality, which is formed in the subconscious mind of human-being in the process of life and which ideally reflects real existent interconnection of the external world. However, more profound perception of awareness content is possible only in case of its correlation with its contradictory notion – unawareness. If awareness reflects knowledge and information about surrounding world and the human-beings themselves, then unawareness is realized in absence of any information.

Thus, the core condition of any awareness lies in differentiation, which is realized by means of negation. Some matters are understood and perceived, since people predicted that there might be such matters; still, these matters are also observed as it is due to the fact that it is not something else and that it is different from another thing, while this another thing does not exist as predecessor of the first one, but both of them appeared simultaneously in the world due to their differences and separation from each other. That is why awareness is realized by means of determination, definition of the way how definiteness is observed, since its form appears firstly from negation. It is also understood in the words of Hegel about formidable clout of denial, since it is perceived as a means of awareness.

Meanwhile, simple unawareness is alleged as something, which is not accessible for perception and cognition. Therefore, it should be located at the side of the negation and placed behind its limits. If any type of determination and awareness is based on the negation process, then it is vivid that this matter should be also realized in the case of unawareness; however, in this case negation, probably, should be seen and functioning as enhanced negation – in other words, as negation of negation itself.

According to Beran (2012), any type of awareness is recognized as cognition, definition of the reality in logical determinations; in other words, there might be some kind of constant rationalization. It is possible due to the fact that ideation is directed to the core condition of …

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