Singularized Consciousness: Toward a Theoretical Model of the Cumulative Construction of the Subject. Implications for the Analysis of Political Subjectivity and Collective Identity

Abstract

This article presents an original theoretical proposal called "singularized consciousness", aimed at understanding how a shared biological base and common human experience give rise to unique and irreplicable forms of conscious identity. Unlike approaches that explain consciousness through isolated neuronal mechanisms, this model proposes that identity emerges from the dynamic and recursive interaction between environment, memory, interpretation, and self-observation, shaping irreversible subjective trajectories that define the subject in their singularity. Phenomena such as personal narrative, the illusion of permanence, and metaconsciousness are examined as expressions of the singularization process, alongside the dimensions of activation, interaction, differentiation, and integration as constitutive levels of consciousness. The study adopts an interdisciplinary theoretical-analytical approach integrating neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology, without seeking definitive conclusions but rather offering an open interpretative framework susceptible to future empirical testing. Understood in this way, consciousness as a singular and irreversible construction process, this framework acquires an analytical dimension directly applicable to political science, insofar as it allows understanding why individuals socialized within the same institutional and discursive contexts develop radically different ideological positions, collective identities, and dispositions toward political action.