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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777968903321

Autore

Torey Zoltan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2009

ISBN

0-262-26121-9

1-282-24035-8

9786612240355

0-262-25518-9

Edizione

[1st MIT Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Consciousness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover.

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Perspective; 1 The Emergence of the Human Brain; 2 Adaptive Changes for Speech and Thought; 3 The Evolution of Language; 4 More about Language; 6 Reflection: The Key to Human Awareness; 7 The Mind-System; 8 The Mind versus the Computer; 9 Evolution: The Model of the Loaded Dice; 10 Between the Quantum and the Cosmos; Notes; References; Bibliography; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.