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Author : Gordon Rattray Taylor
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:49015000618638
Author : Gordon Rattray Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0147796652
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0387987193
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
Author : Gordon Rattray Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Brain
ISBN : 0586083863
Author : William R. Sickles
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1560725168
This book is a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. One of the many interesting facts emerging from this study is that vision appeared long before there was any brain of significance. Perception therefore had to be direct awareness of forms, patterning, smells, and so on. Survival depended on sensory input being an immediate representation of reality. The world as seen could not have been something pieced together and mulled over in a brain which didn't exist. Memory and learning are said to occur at a molecular level for much the same reasons. Today's social insects exhibit enormously complex behaviour, yet their brains are microscopic. All such facts, gleaned from both the past and present, have a major impact upon theories about how our own minds operate.
Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781780231181
From William James to Ivan Pavlov, John Dewey to Sigmund Freud, the Würzburg School to the Chicago School, psychology has spanned centuries and continents. Today, the word is an all-encompassing name for a bewildering range of beliefs about what psychologists know and do, and this intrinsic interest in knowing how our own and other’s minds work has a story as fascinating and complex as humankind itself. In Between Mind and Nature, Roger Smith explores the history of psychology and its relation to religion, politics, the arts, social life, the natural sciences, and technology. Considering the big questions bound up in the history of psychology, Smith investigates what human nature is, whether psychology can provide answers to human problems, and whether the notion of being an individual depends on social and historical conditions. He also asks whether a method of rational thinking exists outside the realm of natural science. Posing important questions about the value and direction of psychology today, Between Mind and Nature is a cogently written book for those wishing to know more about the quest for knowledge of the mind.
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : UCSC:32106012424674
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", author argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states & that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestorsodily responses to pain & pleasure.
Author : Phil Husbands,Owen Holland,Michael Wheeler
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015073672878
The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.
Author : Brian Inglis
Publisher : Grafton Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015014722246
Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674986831
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together and coordinate thoughts. A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition.
Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307763310
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times
Author : John Haslam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Human information processing
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUS45
Author : Nicholas J. Wade
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262731290
This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope in the late 1830s.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307594556
In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433074816475
