The conscious mind
Material type: TextSeries: The MIT Press essential knowledge seriesPublication details: Cambridge : The MIT Press, ©2014Description: xii, 191 p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 9780262527101
- 153 23 TOR-C
- BF311 .T6548 2014
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149.97 GUN-D Deconstruction | 149.97 SIM-F Fifty key postmodern thinkers | 152.1 ACK-N A natural history of the senses | 153 TOR-C The conscious mind | 153.3 BRU-A Actual minds, possible worlds | 153.42 DWY-C Critical thinking : | 153.43 FAG-R Reasoning about knowledge |
This book includes bibliographical references and an index.
1. Introduction 2. Background to the brain: the identity of consciousness 3. Neoteny: the breaking of the hominid impasse 4. Nuts and bolts to build a language 5. Cognitive bootstrapping: the epigenesis of language 6. A device to move mountains: dual output, single focus 7. Language: the Trojan horse of negative entropy 8. What is this thing called mind? 9. The alchemy of self-deception: introspection at work 10. Functional autonomy: the triumph of evolutionary bootstrapping 11. About the self: fiction and fact 12. Unfinished business: skeletons in the cupboard 13. At the edge of comprehension.
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