{"product_id":"adaptive-mediation-consciousness-identity-and-the-limits-of-self-access-9798199832427","title":"Adaptive Mediation: Consciousness, Identity, and the Limits of Self-Access","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shaheer J. Syed\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people, most of the time, assume they know who they are. Adaptive Mediation challenges that assumption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing upon philosophy, psychology, phenomenology, narrative identity theory, and everyday human experience, Shaheer J. Syed introduces a new framework for understanding selfhood. The central claim is both simple and provocative: conscious identity does not directly access the deeper structures that shape thought, emotion, motivation, and behaviour. Instead, consciousness operates through an adaptive mediating layer that presents a coherent and functional sense of self while only partially revealing the underlying architecture from which it emerges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores the consequences of that claim across the human condition. Through discussions of friendship, love, leadership, crisis, morality, transformation, certainty, ideology, belonging, and faith, Adaptive Mediation argues that the feeling of self-transparency is not evidence of direct access but one of the adaptive layer's most important achievements. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a philosophical framework that occupies a middle ground between essentialist theories of fixed identity and constructionist theories of entirely fluid selfhood. It offers a new way of thinking about who we are, why we misunderstand ourselves, and what genuine self-knowledge might still be possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers interested in philosophy of mind, personal identity, moral psychology, consciousness, and the enduring question of what it means to know oneself.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968434094231,"sku":"9798199832427","price":1149.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199832427.webp?v=1782917964","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/adaptive-mediation-consciousness-identity-and-the-limits-of-self-access-9798199832427","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}