ABSTRACT
Brosziewski introduces the concept of the life-course and discusses two basic facts of individuality: the operational closure of consciousness and its impossible last thought. In order to clarify the notions of observation and construction, he sketches the general constructivism of systems theory. He claims that the duality of observing and constructing is meant to replace the subject-object duality as an epistemological super-code for cognition and knowledge. However, it is not meant to deny reality, nor is it a license for a postmodern anything-goes. Aiming to situate the life course within the whole set of communication media, he focuses on two of their general characteristics: coding, as a special type of observation, and negation, as the main source of reflection in the case of communication and of learning in the case of the individual consciousness. He concludes by discussing how the proposed approach conceives the triad of knowledge, learning and (self-) education.
