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The Embodied Mind : Cognitive Science and Human Experience /

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Varela, Francisco J., 1946-2001
Otros Autores: Rosch, Eleanor, Thompson, Evan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1993.
Edición:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fundamental circularity: in the mind of the reflective scientist
  • What do we mean "Human experience"?
  • Symbols: the cognitivist hypothesis
  • Of the storm
  • Emergent properties and connectionism
  • Selfless minds
  • Cartesian anxiety
  • Enaction: embodied cognition
  • Evolutionary path making and natural drift
  • Middle way
  • Laying down a path in walking
  • Appendix A: Meditation terminology
  • Appendix B: Categories of experiential events used in mindfulness/awareness
  • Appendix C: Works on Buddhism and mindfulness/awareness.