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The Primordial Emotions - The dawning of consciousness (Hardcover)
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The Primordial Emotions - The dawning of consciousness (Hardcover)
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To understand what is happening in the brain in the moment you
decide, at will, to summon to consciousness a passage of Mozart's
music, or decide to take a deep breath, is like trying to "catch a
phantom by the tail". Consciousness remains that most elusive of
all human phenomena - one so mysterious, one that even our highly
developed knowledge of brain function can only partly explain. This
book is unique in tracing the origins of consciousness. It takes
the investigation back many years in an attempt to uncover just how
consciousness might have first emerged. Consciousness did not
develop suddenly in humans - it evolved gradually. In 'The
Primordial Emotions', Derek Denton, a world renowned expert on
animal instinct and a leader in integrative physiology,
investigates the evolution of consciousness. Central to the book is
the idea that the primal emotions - elements of instinctive
behaviour - were the first dawning of consciousness. Throughout he
examines instinctive behaviours, such as hunger for air, hunger for
minerals, thirst, and pain, arguing that the emotions elicited from
these behaviours and desire for gratification culminated in the
first conscious states. To develop the theory he looks at behaviour
at different levels of the evolutionary tree, for example of
octopuses, fish, snakes, birds, and elephants. Coupled with
findings from neuroimaging studies, and the viewpoints on
consciousness from some of the key figures in philosophy and
neuroscience, the book presents an accessible and groundbreaking
new look at the problem of consciousness.
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