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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