A History of the Mind
Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness
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Product details:
- Edition number Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
- Publisher Springer New York
- Date of Publication 18 June 1999
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780387987194
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 238 p. 6 illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
"This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the ""phantom pain"" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of ""blindsight,"" Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors' bodily responses to pain and pleasure. ' The relation of mind -- consciousness especially -- and body has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries. Nicholas Humphrey here tells the evolutionary story of how sensory consciousness has come into the world and what it does here. Written in the form of a journey of discovery, A HISTORY OF THE MIND, which Daniel Dennett has called ""a wonderful book -- brilliant, unsettling and beautifully written"" -- gives us a bold, influential interpretation of the nature of consciousness by one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists."
MoreTable of Contents:
Mind and Body.- “Puzzling Work”: An Aside About Language.- What Happened in History: The Inside Story.- The Double Province of the Senses.- “What Do We See?”.- Color is the Keyboard.- In the Realm of the Senses.- Shuttle Vision.- “It Must Look Queer!”.- New Arrangements.- Mind-Blindness and Blind-Mindness.- More About Blindsight.- A Fire In The Hand; A Dagger of the Mind.- He Thought He Saw An Elephant.- Here It Lies.- Here What Lies? A Chapter About Definition.- Five Characteristics in Search of A Theory.- The Problem of Ownership (A Tack to Starboard).- The Question Of Indexicals (A Tack to Port).- Plus CA Change....- A Little Mind Music.- Specific Nerve Energies?.- Smoke Without Fire.- Time Present.- Hurrah!.- Being and Nothingness.- 229.- 235.
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