THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES

The concepts of cognitive linguistics (CL), based on modern neuroscience, can contribute to setting new scopes on solving the problem of the explanatory gap between the mental component of mind as an important element of the mind and the physical nature of the brain, which is a key problem in the philosophy of mind. This article makes an analytical overview of the subject and problems in CL. We focus on language with its underlying unconscious processes and the idea of dynamic metaphor that presents mind as a movement that is not isolated in the brain, but exists as embodied, embedded, extended, enactive mind – 4E cogtnition. We examine the foundation theory of cognitive linguistics initially established by George Lakoff and we study the implications in the related academic fields. The aim is to outline a coherent approach for establishing the mechanisms of mind and thinking with a greater approximation using the methods of CL through language. We hold the assumption that the postulates of CL have a higher explanatory significance and are therefore more relevant to philosophical and scientific debate than the currently influential concepts of Computational Representational Theory of Mind (RCTM), connectivist theories, as well as the underlying views in analytic philosophy based on the correspondence theory of truth. Keywords: Philosophy of mind, cognitive linguistics, consciousness, mind, language, concept, neuroscience, unconscious processes, dynamic metaphor for the mind