How the Mind Uses the Brain: To Move the Body and Image the Universe
Open Court (2010)
| Abstract | Introduction: Searching for the covert agent of consciousness -- The devil's pact (or, why the hard problem is now so hard) -- Action at the macro level : an agent-based theory of intentionality -- Action imagery and representation of the external world -- Do we need an emergency metaphysician? : action versus reaction at the micro level -- Herding neurons : the causal structure of self-organizing systems -- The paradoxes of phenomenal consciousness -- The self-organizing imagination : addressing the mind-body problem -- Introspection and private access -- Action imagery and the role of efference -- Connecting physiology with phenomenology. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Consciousness Cognition Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | B105.C477.E45 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780812696639 0812696638 | |||||||||
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