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Media type:
Book
Title:
The crucible of consciousness
:
an integrated theory of mind and brain
Contains:
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.
Footnote:
Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword
Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical index. - Previous ed.: Melbourne; London: Oxford University Press, 1999