| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself |
| Analysis |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover |
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Originally published: Melbourne; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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Consciousness
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262255189 |
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0262255189 |
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9780262261210 |
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0262261219 |
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1282240358 |
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9781282240353 |
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