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The conscious mind /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Cambridge:
The MIT Press,
2014
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| Series: | The MIT Press essential knowledge series
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jcciBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11&dq=9780262527101&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0nKjUlbHYAhUHbiYKHTkQBY4Q6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=9780262527101&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Background to the brain: the identity of consciousness
- Neoteny: the breaking of the hominid impasse
- Nuts and bolts to build a language
- Cognitive bootstrapping: the epigenesis of language
- A device to move mountains: dual output, single focus
- Language: the Trojan horse of negative entropy
- What is this thing called mind?
- The alchemy of self-deception: introspection at work
- Functional autonomy: the triumph of evolutionary bootstrapping
- About the self: fiction and fact
- Unfinished business: skeletons in the cupboard
- At the edge of comprehension.