Critique of impure reason
an essay on neurons, somatic markers, and consciousness
by Peter Munz
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This volume exposes neuroscience and cognitive science to philosophical analysis and proposes that we think of our conscious states of mind as a composite phenomenon consisting of three layers: neuronal events, somatic markers, and explicit consciousness.
While physics and chemistry can and have been successfully employed to describe the causal relation between the first two layers, the further step to articulate consciousness is purely interpretative and points to the preponderant importance of language. Munz uses literary examples to shift our understanding of the mind away from computational models and to show how eloquence about our states of mind is manufactured rather than caused.
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Psychophysiology, Philosophy of mind, ConsciousnessShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Critique of impure reason: an essay on neurons, somatic markers, and consciousness
1999, Praeger
in English
0275963845 9780275963842
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