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Societies of Brains - A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate (Hardcover)
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Societies of Brains - A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate (Hardcover)
Series: INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings Series
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This monograph from a leading neuroscientist and neural networks
researcher investigates and offers a fresh approach to the
perplexing scientific and philosophical problems of minds and
brains. It explains how brains have evolved from our earliest
vertebrate ancestors. It details how brains provide the basis for
successful comprehension of the environment, for the formulation of
actions and prediction of their consequences, and for cooperating
or competing with other beings that have brains. The book also
offers observations regarding such issues as:
* how and why people fall in and out of love;
* the biological basis for experiencing feelings of love and hate;
and
* how music and dance have provided the ancestral technology for
forming social groups such as tribes and clans.
The author reviews the history of the mind-brain problem, and
demonstrates how the new sciences of behavioral electrophysiology
and nonlinear dynamics -- combined with the latest computer
technology -- have made it possible for us to observe brains in
action. He also provides an answer to the question: What happens to
a stimulus after it enters the brain? The answer: The stimulus
triggers the construction of a percept and is then washed away. All
that we know is what our brains construct for us by neurodynamics.
Brains are not logical devices that process information. They are
dynamical systems that create meaning through interactions with the
environment -- and each other.
The book shows how the learning process by which brains construct
meaning tends to isolate brains into self-centered worlds, and how
nature has provided a remedy -- first appearing in mammals as a
mechanism for pair-bonding -- to ensure reproduction of the young
dependent on parents. The remedy is based in the neurochemistry of
sex which serves to dissolve belief structures in order to open the
way for new patterns of understanding and behavior. Individuals
experience these changes in various ways, such as falling in love,
collegiate indoctrination, tribal bonding, brain washing, political
or religious conversions, and related types of socialization. The
highest forms of meaning for humans come through these social
attachments.
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