A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of ConsciousnessSpringer Science & Business Media, 1999 M06 18 - 238 páginas 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. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT |
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... theory of consciousness Locke and Wittgenstein on the " inverted spectrum " Diderot on the need for real experimental data . 10 NEW ARRANGEMENTS Experiments to prove that sensation and perception can go their own ways — upside - down ...
... theory of consciousness Locke and Wittgenstein on the " inverted spectrum " Diderot on the need for real experimental data . 10 NEW ARRANGEMENTS Experiments to prove that sensation and perception can go their own ways — upside - down ...
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... theories that fail to address sensation sidestep the real problem . 117 17 FIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN SEARCH OF A THEORY What is it " to have sensations " ? - five characteristic properties that distinguish sensations from perceptions ...
... theories that fail to address sensation sidestep the real problem . 117 17 FIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN SEARCH OF A THEORY What is it " to have sensations " ? - five characteristic properties that distinguish sensations from perceptions ...
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... theory of " specific nerve energies " and why it doesn't work - putting the emphasis on output rather than input - modes of bodily acting as an analogy for modes of sensing the possibility of an objective phenomenology . 23 SMOKE ...
... theory of " specific nerve energies " and why it doesn't work - putting the emphasis on output rather than input - modes of bodily acting as an analogy for modes of sensing the possibility of an objective phenomenology . 23 SMOKE ...
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... theory - Kripke on contingent and necessary identities — is there a possible world in which the theory would not hold ? —if the theory has done its job , it has to hold . 29 BEING AND NOTHINGNESS Notes Index • Finis 13 . 202 217 226 229 ...
... theory - Kripke on contingent and necessary identities — is there a possible world in which the theory would not hold ? —if the theory has done its job , it has to hold . 29 BEING AND NOTHINGNESS Notes Index • Finis 13 . 202 217 226 229 ...
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... theory , or fractals , or morphic fields . It makes no use of sociobi- ology . In fact , in many respects , this is a book that could have been written a hundred years ago . Only it wasn't . It remains at the cutting edge of theory ...
... theory , or fractals , or morphic fields . It makes no use of sociobi- ology . In fact , in many respects , this is a book that could have been written a hundred years ago . Only it wasn't . It remains at the cutting edge of theory ...
Contenido
MIND AND BODY | 23 |
PUZZLING WORK AN ASIDE ABOUT LANGUAGE | 31 |
WHAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY THE INSIDE STORY | 37 |
THE DOUBLE PROVINCE OF THE SENSES | 45 |
WHAT DO WE SEE? | 52 |
COLOR IS THE KEYBOARD | 58 |
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES | 61 |
SHUTTLE VISION | 66 |
FIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN SEARCH OF A THEORY | 129 |
THE PROBLEM OF OWNERSHIP A TACK TO STARBOARD | 142 |
THE QUESTION OF INDEXICALS A TACK TO PORT | 151 |
PLUS CA CHANGE | 157 |
A LITTLE MIND MUSIC | 161 |
SPECIFIC NERVE ENERGIES? | 166 |
SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE | 170 |
TIME PRESENT | 179 |
IT MUST LOOK QUEER | 70 |
NEW ARRANGEMENTS | 75 |
MINDBLINDNESS AND BLINDMINDNESS | 82 |
MORE ABOUT BLINDSIGHT | 88 |
A FIRE IN THE HAND A DAGGER OF THE MIND | 94 |
HE THOUGHT HE SAW AN ELEPHANT | 101 |
HERE IT LIES | 115 |
HERE WHAT LIES? A CHAPTER ABOUT DEFINITION | 117 |
HURRAH | 191 |
HURRAH FOR THE OLD WAYS | 194 |
THE MIND MADE FLESH | 202 |
WATER AND WINE | 217 |
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS | 226 |
Notes | 229 |
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