Neuropsychology of Liberty

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of the configuration, at the neuropsychological level, of a system of knowledge that assists and guides the free individual behavior. The name that has been given to this configuration in this work is that of “sense of freedom”, a term with which it is sought to refer to this system of knowledge derived from the interaction of the individual in the context of open societies based on abstract rules. The fundamental operation that is explored is the sensory classification of the events of the social and intra-individual milieu; with the purpose of offering a perspective against which other theories of social behavior that favor, in a somewhat limiting way, paradigms based on automatisms or simpler mechanisms could be contrasted. It is expected to offer arguments on which the effect of evolutionary processes, both social and biological, on individual processes of adaptation to social systems whose operating principle is freedom can be investigated more broadly