The crucible of consciousness
Subtitle: an integrated theory of mind and brain
By: Zoltan Torey.
Edition: 1st MIT Pess ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780262512848
Subjects: Consciousness
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.  With new foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / D.C Dennett; title: Perspective; title: The problem; title: The path to the solution; title: Some technical aspects; title: The emergence of the human brain; title: The upgrading of the prehuman brain; title: Modifications that underlie language; title: The internal representation of the outside world; title: Adaptive changes for speech and thought; title: Dual excitation and the oscillation of attention; title: The building blocks of language; title: The evolution of language; title: A the breakthrough to protolanguage; title: Secondary language evolution; title: Using the language instrument; title: Language and the limits of abstraction; title: More about language; title: The perceptual basis of language; title: The acquisition of language by the child; title: Ape talk : a tip without an iceberg; title: Self-accessibility; title: Problems of self-detection; title: Elements of self-detection; title: Reflection: the key to human awareness; title: Double-stranded re-entrance; title: The mechanism of reflective awareness; title: Self-awareness; title: The mind-system; title: The new identity : brain to mind; title: The alchemy of self-deception; title: Problems with self-conceptualisation; title: The freedom of the system :  act and fiction about the mind; title: The mind versus the computer; title: Formalism and the logic of misconstruction; title: Model formation and the role of semantics 191; title: Society and the shaping of the mind; title: Evolution : the model of the loaded dice; title: The watershed of insights; title: Prejudice and counterprejudice; title: Between the quantum and the cosmos; title: A range of perspectives; title: Light at the end of the tunnel.