How the mind uses the brain
Subtitle: to move the body and image the universe
By: Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton.
Contributors: Newton, Natika.
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812696639
Subjects: Consciousness; Cognition -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Searching for the covert agent of consciousness; title: The devil's pact (or, why the hard problem is now so hard); title: Action at the macro level : an agent-based theory of intentionality; title: Action imagery and representation of the external world; title: Do we need an emergency metaphysician? : action versus reaction at the micro level; title: Herding neurons : the causal structure of self-organizing systems; title: The paradoxes of phenomenal consciousness; title: The self-organizing imagination : addressing the mind-body problem; title: Introspection and private access; title: Action imagery and the role of efference; title: Connecting physiology with phenomenology.