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Автор: Torey Zoltan
Название: The Conscious Mind
Перевод названия: Золтан Тори: Осознанное мышление
ISBN: 9780262527101
Издательство: MIT Press
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Философия сознания

Сознательное и бессознательное

ISBN-10: 0262527103
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.22 кг.
Дата издания: 08.08.2014
Серия: Mit press essential knowledge series
Язык: English
Размер: 183 x 154 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
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An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.

How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind.

Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which Homo erectus became Homo sapiens. He describes the augmented functioning that underpins the emergent mind -- a new (off-line) internal response system with which the brain accesses itself and then forms a selection mechanism for mentally generated behavior options. This functional breakthrough, Torey argues, explains how the animal brains awareness became self-accessible and reflective -- that is, how the human brain acquired a conscious mind. Consciousness, unlike animal awareness, is not a unitary phenomenon but a composite process. Toreys account shows how protolanguage evolved into language, how a brain subsystem for the emergent mind was built, and why these developments are opaque to introspection. We experience the brains functional autonomy, he argues, as free will.

Torey proposes that once life began, consciousness had to emerge -- because consciousness is the informational source of the brains behavioral response. Consciousness, he argues, is not a newly acquired quality, cosmic principle, circuitry arrangement, or epiphenomenon, as others have argued, but an indispensable working component of the living systems manner of functioning.

The Conscious Mind, Torey Zoltan