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Embodiment and the inner life - Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds (Paperback)
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Embodiment and the inner life - Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds (Paperback)
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To understand the mind and its place in Nature is one of the great
intellectual challenges of our time, a challenge that is both
scientific and philosophical. How does cognition influence an
animal's behaviour? What are its neural underpinnings? How is the
inner life of a human being constituted? What are the neural
underpinnings of the conscious condition?
Embodiment and the Inner Life approaches each of these questions
from a scientific standpoint. But it contends that, before we can
make progress on them, we have to give up the habit of thinking
metaphysically, a habit that creates a fog of philosophical
confusion. From this post-reflective point of view, the book argues
for an intimate relationship between cognition, sensorimotor
embodiment, and the integrative character of the conscious
condition.
Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and dynamical
systems, it proposes an empirical theory of this three-way
relationship whose principles, not being tied to the contingencies
of biology or physics, are applicable to the whole space of
possible minds in which humans and other animals are included.
Embodiment and the Inner Life is one of very few books that
provides a properly joined-up theory of consciousness, and will be
essential reading for all psychologists, philosophers, and
neuroscientists with an interest in the enduring puzzle of
consciousness.
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