ABSTRACT
As a discipline about human consciousness, psychology has more than one function, such as description and analysis of behaviour and learning, intelligence testing, and psychotherapy. There is, however, one important function that has not yet received attention it deserves. This function is providing foundation for scientific method. In the introduction, we explain why during individual development a child, when faced with languages and knowledge, doesn’t absorb them directly, but has to ‘reinvent’ them on the basis of his or her innate psychological abilities. Further, we argue that in the history of cognitive development people too followed this pattern: They converted their original ‘folk psychology’ into language and scientific knowledge. Since these raw psychological abilities cannot be explained in terms of scientific causality, in this book they are called the Inexplicable. Apart from cognitive content, the Inexplicable includes our emotions, feeling and motivations. In this book, we show that these foundational abilities exist in special psychological space and time and relate to each other by a special type of link – participational magical causation. These abilities also can also produce motivation for unselfish moral behaviour. The aims of the book are outlined, and the new points of the argument, if compared with the already existing similar texts, are highlighted.
