Bright air, brilliant fire : on the matter of the mind
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Bright air, brilliant fire : on the matter of the mind
(Penguin science)
Penguin, 1994
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Note
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1992
Bibliography : p. 253-266
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The author takes the reader on a tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and invididuality. He argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosophy, and more. Frequently contentious, Edelman attacks cognitive and behavioral approaches, which leave biology out of the picture, as well as the currently fashionable view of the brain as a computer. Gerald Edelman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1972.
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I PROBLEMS 1 Mind 2 Putting the Mind Back into Nature 3 The Matter of the Mind. PART II ORIGINS 4 Putting Psychology on a Biological Basis 5 Morphology and Mind. Completing Darwin's Program 6 Topobiology: Lessons from the Embryo 7 The Problems Reconsidered. PART III PROPOSALS 8 The Sciences of Recognition 9 Neural Darwinism 10 Memory and Concepts: Building a Bridge to Consciousness 11 Consciousness: The Remembered Present 12 Language and Higher Order Consciousness 13 Attention and the Unconscious 14 Layers and Loops: A Summary. PART IV HARMONIES 15 A Graveyard of Isms: Philosophy and Its Claims 16 Memory and the Individual Soul: Against Silly Reductionism 17 Higher Products: Thoughts, Moments, Emotions 18 Diseases of the Mind: The Reintegrated Self 19 Is It Possible to Construct a Conscious Artifact? 20 Symmetry and Memory: On the Ultimate Origins of Mind. Epilogue. Mind Without Biology: A Critical Postscript. SELECTED READINGS. CREDITS. INDEX.
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