The Architecture of Scrutinized Awareness Theory presents the structural relationships that organize Victor Wyld’s Scrutinized Awareness Theory.
The diagram traces the architecture from awareness and recognition through contested incorporation, remainder, carrying, participation, and identity to scrutinized awareness.
The relationships represented are structural rather than simply chronological. Each stage identifies a condition upon which later forms of participation and consciousness depend.
What the figure represents
Scrutinized Awareness Theory distinguishes awareness as registered or represented content from awareness that has become implicated in the continuation of a participant.
Recognition becomes structurally significant when what is recognized cannot simply be absorbed without consequence. Contested incorporation can leave a remainder; remainder can enter carrying; carrying makes participation under implication possible; and continued carrying contributes to identity.
Scrutinized awareness therefore does not appear in the diagram as an isolated cognitive capacity. It emerges from an architecture in which awareness has become something the participant must carry.
From: On the Question of Scrutinized Awareness by Victor Wyld.