Imagination and the meaningful brain /
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the m...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Uncertain Steps toward a Biology of Meaning; 2 Metaphor, Memory, and Unconscious Imagination; 3 Imagination's Autonomy; 4 The Corporeal Imagination; 5 Intentionality and the Self; 6 Directing the Imagination; 7 The Uniqueness of Human Feelings; 8 Feelings and Value; 9 Imagining Other Minds; 10 Mirror Neurons, Gestures, and the Origins of Metaphor; 11 Experience and the Mind-Body Problem; Notes; References; Index.