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题名/责任者:

The crucible of consciousness : an integrated theory of mind and brain / Zoltan Torey ; with a foreword by Daniel C. Dennett.

版本说明:

1st MIT Pess ed.

出版发行项:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.

ISBN:

9780262512848 (pbk. : alk. paper)

载体形态项:

xvi, 247 p. ; 23 cm.

个人责任者:

Torey, Zoltan.

论题主题:

Consciousness.

中图法分类号:

B842.7

一般附注:

"A Bradford book."

一般附注:

Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-229) and index.

内容附注:

Foreword / D.C Dennett -- 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 -- A 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 re-entrance -- The mechanism of reflective awareness -- Self-awareness -- The mind-system -- The new identity : brain to mind -- The alchemy of self-deception -- Problems with self-conceptualisation -- The freedom of the system : act and fiction about the mind -- The mind versus the computer -- Formalism and the logic of misconstruction -- Model formation and the role of semantics 191 -- 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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