Intersensory Origin of Mind
Subtitle: a Revisit to Emergent Evolution
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780203430880
Subjects: Sensorimotor integration; Philosophy; Psychology; Senses and sensation; Intersensory effects; Intellect
Description: Thorne Shipley shows the profound limits of linear, mechanistic and naively reductionistic accounts of the mind, proposing instead a sensory rationalistic position which builds on the principles of emergent evolution.
Notes: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Some starting points for a new humanistic psychology; Many valid approaches to mind; Introduction to the natural history of mind; The perception of routes, methods, and linear arguments; Time as quality from routes as durations; The multimodality of space-quality; Ideas: another complex quality of experience; Ideas of objects vs. ideas of ideas; Specific contribution of the human senses to cognitive function; The mind is like a; Key concepts in theoretical neurology; The origin of free will.

The neural foundations of accelerated self-awarenessCrucial concepts for pedagogy and child development; Afterword; Appendix: a short listing of some influential works; Index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Some starting points for a new humanistic psychology; Many valid approaches to mind; Introduction to the natural history of mind; The perception of routes, methods, and linear arguments; Time as quality from routes as durations; The multimodality of space-quality; Ideas: another complex quality of experience; Ideas of objects vs. ideas of ideas; Specific contribution of the human senses to cognitive function; The mind is like a; Key concepts in theoretical neurology; The origin of free will