Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate (INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings Series) - Brossura

Freeman, Walter J.

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ISBN 10: 0805820175 ISBN 13: 9780805820171

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 1995

Riassunto

This monograph from a leading neuroscientist and neural networks researcher investigates and offers a fresh approach to the perplexing scientific and philosophical problems of minds and brains. It explains how brains have evolved from our earliest vertebrate ancestors. It details how brains provide the basis for successful comprehension of the environment, for the formulation of actions and prediction of their consequences, and for cooperating or competing with other beings that have brains. The book also offers observations regarding such issues as:

* how and why people fall in and out of love;
* the biological basis for experiencing feelings of love and hate; and
* how music and dance have provided the ancestral technology for forming social groups such as tribes and clans.

The author reviews the history of the mind-brain problem, and demonstrates how the new sciences of behavioral electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - combined with the latest computer technology - have made it possible for us to observe brains in action. He also provides an answer to the question: What happens to a stimulus after it enters the brain? The answer: The stimulus triggers the construction of a percept and is then washed away. All that we know is what our brains construct for us by neurodynamics. Brains are not logical devices that process information. They are dynamical systems that create meaning through interactions with the environment - and each other.

The book shows how the learning process by which brains construct meaning tends to isolate brains into self-centered worlds, and how nature has provided a remedy - first appearing in mammals as a mechanism for pair-bonding - to ensure reproduction of the young dependent on parents.

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Contenuti:

Contents: Prologue. Brains and Minds. Nerve Energy and Neuroactivity. Sensation and Perception. Intention and Movement. Intentional Structure and Thought. Learning and Unlearning. Self and Society.

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Book by Freeman Walter J

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0805820175
• ISBN 13: 9780805820171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 212