Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: - Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)

An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness implementing approaches developed previously by the cognitive scientist Bernard Baars and the philosopher Fred Dretske. This book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective and generalizes the results of that book to processes of 'distributed cognition' characteristic of large institutions that can entertain several, sometimes many, simultaneous 'global workspaces' which must compete for resources while communicating and cooperating. Equivalence classes of 'states' produce a network of language-analogs characterizing interacting cognitive modules which entertain multiple workspaces. Equivalence classes of these language-analogs produce dynamical manifolds describing temporal processes carried out by multiple-workspace institutions.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	2008
Authors:	Rodrick Wallace • Mindy T. Fullilove
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	206
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-76764-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	0-387-76764-9
Barcode:	9780387767642

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