Memory, consciousness, and temporality / by Gianfranco Dalla Barba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalla Barba, Gianfranco, 1957-

Series:

Neurobiological foundation of aberrant behaviors ; 3.

Neurobiological foundation of aberrant behaviors ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Consciousness.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xi, 224 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2002]

Summary:

Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the memory trace paradox' and the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesis - the Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality (MCT) hypothesis - on the relationship between memory and consciousness that is not undermined by these assumptions and further demonstrates how MCT can account for a variety of memory disorders and phenomena. With a unique approach intended to conjugate phenomenological analysis and recent neuropsychological data, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of the central issues in current cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Problem of the Past and the Paradox of the Trace 1

1. Knowing and remembering: a phenomenological description 1

2. The paradox of the trace 5

3. Memory and representation 13

Chapter 2. The Homunculus Fallacy 27

1. Memory and control systems 27

2. The homunculus fallacy 32

3. The foundations of consciousness 43

a) The problem of the foundations of consciousness 43

b) The neurobiological anthropomorphization of the unconscious 45

c) Psychoanalytic anthropomorphization of the unconscious 57

d) Functionalist anthropomorphization of the unconscious 61

4. Science and materialism 71

Chapter 3. Varieties of Consciousness 87

1. Consciousness cannot but be defined as consciousness of 87

2. Consciousness is not passivity 89

3. Becoming conscious means becoming conscious of something in a certain way 92

4. Varieties of consciousness 94

5. Where does the originality of the modes of consciousness come from? 97

6. Memory as a particular type of consciousness 101

Chapter 4. Temporality 105

1. Phenomenology of temporality 105

a) The past 106

b) The present 111

c) The future 114

2. Ontology of temporality 117

a) The before-after relationship 117

Chapter 5. Knowing and Remembering 125

3. Ontology of knowledge 125

4. Ontology of memory 138

Chapter 6. Memory and Consciousness 149

1. Is a scientific theory of consciousness possible? 149

2. A hypothesis on the relationship between memory and consciousness 153

3. Towards experimental phenomenology 169

Chapter 7. Consciousness and Reality 181

1. Amnesia 181

2. Confabulation 191

3. Consciousness and existence 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0792375254

OCLC:

47746472