How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified,
brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to
the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and
creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations
for analogy, action, intention, language, and the self. Brain-Mind
develops a brilliant account of mental operations using promising
new ideas from theoretical neuroscience. Single neurons cannot do
much by themselves, but groups of neurons work together to
accomplish powerful kinds of mental representation, including
concepts, images, and rules. Minds enable people to perceive,
imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create,
and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the
mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical
system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms
of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including
the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Unification comes from
systematic application of Chris Eliasmith's powerful Semantic
Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network
and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. This book belongs to a
trio that includes Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and
Professions and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to
Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read
independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and
Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the
cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.
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