A History of the Mind

Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness

Nicholas Humphrey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

1999 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-98719-4 (ISBN)

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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. '

Mind and Body.- “Puzzling Work”: An Aside About Language.- What Happened in History: The Inside Story.- The Double Province of the Senses.- “What Do We See?”.- Color is the Keyboard.- In the Realm of the Senses.- Shuttle Vision.- “It Must Look Queer!”.- New Arrangements.- Mind-Blindness and Blind-Mindness.- More About Blindsight.- A Fire In The Hand; A Dagger of the Mind.- He Thought He Saw An Elephant.- Here It Lies.- Here What Lies? A Chapter About Definition.- Five Characteristics in Search of A Theory.- The Problem of Ownership (A Tack to Starboard).- The Question Of Indexicals (A Tack to Port).- Plus CA Change....- A Little Mind Music.- Specific Nerve Energies?.- Smoke Without Fire.- Time Present.- Hurrah!.- Being and Nothingness.- 229.- 235.

Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; 238 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
ISBN-10	0-387-98719-3 / 0387987193
ISBN-13	978-0-387-98719-4 / 9780387987194
Zustand	Neuware