Normalt og specielt oplevelsesliv

Psykologisk, psykiatrisk og filosofisk set

Abstract

Experiences are the experiences of individuals. They consist in experienced items, experienced qualities connected to the items, plus other qualities of the experiences. The distinction between experiences and experienced items is important. Both normal experiences and experiences during depressive, delirious, and schizophrenic
states are codetermined by stimuli from both environment, memory, motivational and other stimuli from the individual's present state. Emotions are seen as informers of the state of the needs, and feelings as evaluations of the value of objects for one's life. Integration of biological and psychological concepts is vital in ethiological and
therapeutic research. Experiences are some qualities of some brain processes. This conception does not underestimate the importance of experiences, including spiritual ones. Material existence is ontologically important, but experiences are equally important. The position taken means that concepts of soul, consciousness, determinism, indeterminism,
behaviourism, logical empiricism, and solipsism become superfluous, if not harmful. Furthermore, such concepts lead to a lot of pseudoproblems.