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Life, brain and consciousness : new perceptions through targeted systems analysis /

The relation between mind and brain can never be understood by science until the nature of consciousness and self-consciousness is clearly perceived as specific system-properties. In this volume the author tackles this problem in a rigorous analysis which begins with the general dynamics of living s...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sommerhoff, Gerd
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; New York : New York : North-Holland ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., �1990.
Collection:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 63.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Part 1 : Life. Order and life ; The definition of teleological concepts in non-teleological terms
  • Part 2 : Brain and consciousness. Consciousness and self-consciousness ; The physical structure of the internal representations ; The neural correlates of the internal representations ; Self-awareness, imagination and memory ; Language and rational thought ; Mind and matter
  • Part 3 : Culture. Deeper levels of consciousness (1) ; Deeper levels of consciousness (2)
  • Part 4 : Appendices. Further applications of the concept of directive correlation ; Some basic concepts of set theory ; Generative and transformational grammars ; Some basic concepts of information theory ; Physical systems and casual relationships.