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The crucible of consciousness : an integrated theory of mind and brain /
This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st MIT Press ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Daniel C Dennett
- Preface
- Perspective. The problem ; The path to the solution ; Some technical aspects
- The emergence of the human brain. The upgrading of the prehuman brain ; Modifications that underlie language ; The internal representation of the outside world
- Adaptive changes for speech and thought. Dual excitation and the oscillation of attention ; The building blocks of language
- The evolution of language. The breakthrough to protolanguage ; Secondary language evolution ; Using the language instrument ; Language and the limits of abstraction
- More about language. The perceptual basis of language ; The acquisition of language by the child ; Ape talk : a tip without an iceberg
- Self-accessibility. Problems of self-detection ; Elements of self-detection
- Reflection: the key to human awareness. Double-stranded reentrance ; The mechanism of reflective awareness ; Self-awareness
- The mind-system. The new identity : brain to mind ; The alchemy of self-deception ; Problems with self-conceptualization ; The "freedom" of the system : fact and fiction about the mind
- The mind versus the computer. Formalism and the logic of misconstruction ; Model formation and the role of semantics ; Society and the shaping of the mind
- Evolution : the model of the loaded dice. The watershed of insights ; Prejudice and counterprejudice
- Between the quantum and the cosmos. A range of perspectives ; Light at the end of the tunnel.