Title Mindmelding : consciousness, neuroscience, and the mind's privacy / William Hirstein

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Cover; Contents; 1 The impasse; Is the mind private?; The possibility of mindmelding; Assertions of privacy; Ten popular (but false) claims; Conclusion; 2 An alternative framework; Introduction; Making mindmelding conceivable; Sense of self; The brain's higher-level architecture: a hypothesis; Binding; Mindmelding; Conclusion; 3 The brain and its cortex; Introduction; Neurons; Sensing the world, and ourselves; Functional systems; Approaches to consciousness; Executive processes; Conclusion; 4 Consciousness; Introduction; The neuroscience of binding What is the relation between consciousness and binding?Visual consciousness; What is the function of binding?; Where are conscious states?; Conclusion; 5 Preparing representations; Introduction; Filling-in; Where are colors?; Objections and replies; The apparent completeness and consistency of conscious states; Conclusion; 6 Executive processes; Introduction; Sensory and mnemonic representations remain in posterior cortex; The ensemble of executive processes; The anatomy and physiology of the prefrontal cortex; We are not directly aware of executive processes Are active prefrontal connections necessary for posterior conscious states?Access consciousness versus phenomenal consciousness; Bare consciousness; Conclusion; 7 Sense of self; Introduction; Six senses of "self"; Making self-representations; The psychology of executive processes; We are not directly aware of the psychological; Is consciousness without a sense of self possible?; Conclusion; 8 The reality and importance of the executive self; Introduction; Acknowledging executive activity as ours; The relation between executive processes and self-representations Personality: the executive and emotional selvesSkepticism about the psychological self; Conscious action; Is the self merely a creation of confabulation?; Questions about unity; Conclusion; 9 Sharing conscious states; Introduction; What sort of possibility?; Cleaving representations and executive processes; White matter fiber tracts; Mindmelding thought experiments; Mindmelding versus mindreading; Mindmelding technology; Objections and replies; Conclusion; 10 Mindtalk; Introduction; Folk psychology; What sentences say; Attributing mental states; Putting the approach to work Self as inner actor: a folk-psychological metaphorFirst-person attributions; Describing mindmelding; Objections and replies; Conclusion; 11 Disentangling self and consciousness; Introduction; Problems of the mental and problems of the physical in general; The metaphysician's toolchest; Categories of existence; Basic metaphysical categories of mind; Physical definitions; Our knowledge of things, properties, and facts; Inseparability; Privacy and inseparability; Creating metaphysical categories; Conclusion; 12 Representation and consciousness; Introduction; Representational states Summary In this controversial book, William Hirstein argues that it is possible for one person to directlyexperience the conscious states of another, by way of what he calls mindmelding. Drawing on a range of research from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he presents a highly original ccount of consciousness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Philosophy of mind. Consciousness. Mind and body. Self. Neurobiology. Ego (Psychology) Human information processing. Self-perception. Brain. Theory of Mind Consciousness Mental Processes Self Concept Brain Ego Neurobiology brains. PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science. Self-perception Human information processing Ego (Psychology) Brain Consciousness Mind and body Neurobiology Philosophy of mind Self Form Electronic book LC no. 2011944055 ISBN 9780191611605 0191611603 9780191738319 019173831X 9781283579520 1283579529

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