An edition of The crucible of consciousness
(1999)
The crucible of consciousness
an integrated theory of mind and brain
1st MIT Pess ed.
by Zoltan Torey
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Consciousness, Intellect, Brain, Psychology, Language and linguisticsShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Table of Contents
Foreword / D.C Dennett
Perspective
The problem
The path to the solution
Some technical aspects
The emergence of the human brain
The upgrading of the prehuman brain
Modifications that underlie language
The internal representation of the outside world
Adaptive changes for speech and thought
Dual excitation and the oscillation of attention
The building blocks of language
The evolution of language
A the breakthrough to protolanguage
Secondary language evolution
Using the language instrument
Language and the limits of abstraction
More about language
The perceptual basis of language
The acquisition of language by the child
Ape talk : a tip without an iceberg
Self-accessibility
Problems of self-detection
Elements of self-detection
Reflection: the key to human awareness
Double-stranded re-entrance
The mechanism of reflective awareness
Self-awareness
The mind-system
The new identity : brain to mind
The alchemy of self-deception
Problems with self-conceptualisation
The freedom of the system : act and fiction about the mind
The mind versus the computer
Formalism and the logic of misconstruction
Model formation and the role of semantics 191
Society and the shaping of the mind
Evolution : the model of the loaded dice
The watershed of insights
Prejudice and counterprejudice
Between the quantum and the cosmos
A range of perspectives
Light at the end of the tunnel.
Edition Notes
"A Bradford book."
Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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