The crucible of consciousness [electronic resource] : an integrated theory of mind and brain / Zoltan Torey ; with a foreword by Daniel C. Dennett
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009Edition: 1st MIT Press edDescription: 1 online resource (xvi, 247 p.) : illISBN: - 9780262255189 (electronic bk.)
- 0262255189 (electronic bk.)
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"A Bradford book"--P. [4] of cover
Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-229) and index
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.
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