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The Mind

Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain

Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain

By E. Bruce Goldstein

By E. Bruce Goldstein

By E. Bruce Goldstein

By E. Bruce Goldstein

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    About The Mind

    An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain.

    The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain—often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can’t know the minds of others. But we also don’t know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions—what is the mind? and what is consciousness?—and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

    Goldstein discusses how the mind has been described and studied since the nineteenth century, and surveys modern approaches to studying mind–brain connections; considers consciousness and how the nervous system creates experience; and explores the hidden mechanisms of the brain. Then, in the heart of the book, he focuses on one principle that holds across a wide range of the mind’s functions: prediction. All the behaviors and physiological processes associated with prediction—including eye movements, tactile sensation, language, music, memory, and social processes—involve communication between different places in the brain. The mind emerges not from the firing of neurons in one specialized area but from communications that travel across what Goldstein calls “highways of the mind.”

    About The Mind

    An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain.

    The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain–often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can’t know the minds of others. But we also don’t know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions–what is the mind? and what is consciousness?–and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

    Product Details

    Category: Politics

    Hardcover | $27.95
    Published by The MIT Press
    Sep 01, 2020 | 248 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780262044066

    Category: Psychology

    Ebook | $17.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Sep 01, 2020 | 264 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780262358774

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    Table Of Contents

    CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MIND
    THE MULTIFACETED MIND
    EARLY MEASUREMENTS OF THE MIND
    THE STUDY OF THE MIND IS SUSPENDED BY BEHAVIORISM
    A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS THE STUDY OF THE MIND
    MEANWHILE, IN POPULAR CULTURE . . .
    MIND-BRAIN SKEPTICISM
    MIND-BRAIN CONNECTIONS
    CHAPTER 2: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE
    WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
    CONSCIOUSNESS IN NON-HUMANS
    Are Plants Conscious?
    Consciousness in Non-Human Animals
    What Do Animals Experience?
    THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
    Can We Know What Someone Else Is Experiencing?
    Can Experience (Qualia) Be Inferred from Scientific Knowledge?
    THE CREATION OF EXPERIENCE
    Experience Is Created by the Nervous System
    How Is Experience Created by the Nervous System?
    THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
    Localization of Function
    Distributed Representation
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    CHAPTER 3: THE HIDDEN MIND
    HIDDEN PROCESSES REVEALED BY BRAIN DAMAGE
    Visual Agnosia: Seeing Without Recognizing
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