The dissolution of mind : a fable of how experience gives rise to cognition
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The dissolution of mind : a fable of how experience gives rise to cognition
(Value inquiry book series, v. 128)
Rodopi, 2002
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. [207]-227
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind's architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical consequences that the author derives from his proposal.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Editorial Foreword by Oscar Vilarroya
Guest Foreword by Adolf Tobena
Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE Alice's Perplexities
TWO Non-Professor O's Aphorisms
THREE Monday. On How No Superfluous Experiences Exist
FOUR Tuesday. On How to Get by Without Concepts
FIVE Wednesday. On How to Live in a Virtual World
SIX Thursday. On How Words Lost Their Meaning
SEVEN Friday. On How to Communicate Without Information
EIGHT Saturday. On How Living Dissolves the Mind
NINE Sunday. "Tap-Tapping" the Compass
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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