The crucible of consciousness an integrated theory of mind and brain /
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2009.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Torey, Zoltan. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The crucible of consciousness |h [electronic resource] : |b an integrated theory of mind and brain / |c Zoltan Torey ; with a foreword by Daniel C. Dennett. |
| 250 | |a 1st MIT Press ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Cambridge, MA : |b MIT Press, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xvi, 247 p.) : |b ill. | ||
| 500 | |a "A Bradford book"--P. [4] of cover. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword. | ||
| 500 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-229) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword / by Daniel C Dennett -- Preface -- 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. 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 reentrance ; The mechanism of reflective awareness ; Self-awareness -- The mind-system. The new identity : brain to mind ; The alchemy of self-deception ; Problems with self-conceptualization ; The "freedom" of the system : fact and fiction about the mind -- The mind versus the computer. Formalism and the logic of misconstruction ; Model formation and the role of semantics ; 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Consciousness. | |
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