The crucible of consciousness : An Integrated theory of Mind and Brain (Record no. 22743)
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| ISBN | 9780262512848 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| ISBN | 026251284X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Classification number | 153 |
| Author Cutter | TOR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author name | Torey, Zoltan. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The crucible of consciousness : An Integrated theory of Mind and Brain |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st MIT Press ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge, MA : |
| Name of publisher | MIT Press, |
| Year of publication | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 247 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "A Bradford book"--P. [4] of cover. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Consciousness. |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| Henry Martyn Institute Library | Henry Martyn Institute Library | General stacks | 10/10/2019 | 153 TOR | 25626 | Books |