The Postmodern Brain.

The Postmodern Brain.

This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an overa...

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Main Author: Globus, Gordon G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1995.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Human information processing.
Connectionism.
Postmodernism.
Connectionism
Human information processing
Postmodernism
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • THE POSTMODERN BRAIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; PREFACE N; CHAPTER ONE THE UNEXPURGATE D SELF-ORGANIZINGDREAM; CHAPTER TWO. DECONSTRUCTING THE CHINESE ROOM; APPENDIX ADENNETT, THE ILLUSIONIST; APPENDIX B. NETWORK AND BACKGROUND IN SEARLE'S THEORY OF INTENTIONALITY; CHAPTER THREE. THE CONTINENTAL TRADITION AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE; I. Heidegger and Connectionism:Systems that can do what Dasein does; II. Derrida and Connectionism:Différance in neural nets; CHAPTER FOUR. TOWARD A NONCOMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVESCIENCE: THE SELF-TUNING BRAIN
  • APPENDIXThe Binding ProblemCHAPTER FIVE. PSYCHIATRY AND THE NEW DYNAMICS; CHAPTER SIX. THE ERUPTION OF OTHER AND SELF; I.A DECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSICAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; II. DREAMING OF AUTRE; APPENDIX INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY; CHAPTER SEVEN. POSTMODERNISM AND THE DREAM; APPENDIX REPORT BY REVIEWER #2; CHAPTER EIGHT. TAKE-OFF TO QUANTUM BRAIN DYNAMICS:THE EXCISION FROM DISCOURSE; NOTES; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

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