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The conscious mind / Zoltan L. Torey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torey, Zoltan, author.
- Series:
- MIT Press essential knowledge series
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Consciousness.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 191 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262527101
- 0262527103
- 9780262525725
- 0262525720
- OCLC:
- 874557676
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