How the Mind Uses the Brain: (To Move the Body and Image the Universe) (Large Print 16pt) - Softcover
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience, the nature of consciousness and the relation between mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. Yet agreement looks farther away than ever.Ellis and Newton explain and argue for a bold new approach, called enactivism, showing how it cuts through various difficulties which have stumped previous theories. At first glance, enactivism itself seems open to fatal objections, but the authors demonstrate in detail that these objections disappear on closer examination.How the Mind Uses the Brain represents a sharp break with the tradition which sees consciousness as the final step in a chain of causes and effects, with information processing going on in the intervening steps. This tradition has reduced consciousness to an appendage. According to Ellis and Newton, consciousness and emotions are central aspects of the organisms ongoing self-organizational activity, driving information processing rather than merely responding to it.
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Ralph D. Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Clark Atlanta University. His books include Coherence and Verification in Ethics (1991), Questioning Consciousness (1995), and Curious Emotions (2005).Natika Newton is Professor of Philosophy at Nassau Community College and author of Foundations of Understanding (1996). Ellis and Newton have co-edited The Caldron of Consciousness (2000) and now co-edit the pathbreaking series of monographs, Consciousness and Emotion.
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- PublisherReadhowyouwant
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1458730042
- ISBN 13 9781458730046
- BindingPaperback
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