ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a new notion, hegemony, which is a feature that can operate in any series of events which is capable of bearing two different levels, or systems, of description. Hegemony, then, is a property which can be possessed by one of two (or more) descriptions of an event, such that the event's occurrence under the latter description(s) is explained by its occurrence under the former description. An event which occurs usually bears a number of different descriptions. Some of these descriptions will be logically related and others not. It is to be underlined that for the model of alternating hegemony to be applicable to the case of brain and mind there must be neural indeterminacies, for unless there are the mental description will never have hegemony. The standard plots of primal dramas seem to admit a variety of quite opposite denouements.
