How the Mind Uses the Brain: To Move the Body and Image the Universe - Ralph Ellis - Bücher - Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. - 9780812696639 - 10. Juni 2010
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How the Mind Uses the Brain: To Move the Body and Image the Universe

Ralph Ellis

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How the Mind Uses the Brain: To Move the Body and Image the Universe

The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that their perspective presents many problems: How does one distinguish real action from reaction? Is it scientifically acceptable to say that the whole organism can use its parts, instead of being a mere summation of their separate mechanical reactions? What about the danger that this analysis will imply that physical systems fail to be "causally closed"? "How the Mind Uses the Brain" tries to answer these questions and represents a sharp break with tradition, arguing that consciousness and emotions are aspects of an organism's ongoing self-organizational activity, driving information-processing rather than merely responding to it.


352 pages, Illustrations

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 10. Juni 2010
ISBN13 9780812696639
Verlag Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Seitenanzahl 352
Maße 152 × 228 × 20 mm   ·   411 g

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