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The Crucible of Consciousness - An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain (Paperback)
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The Crucible of Consciousness - An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs
that rendered the brain accessible to itself. In The Crucible of
Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its
central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough
that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the
mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates
the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal
awareness, and he maps its neural and linguistic underpinnings. And
he argues, controversially, that the neural technicalities of
reflective awareness can be neither algorithmic nor
spiritual-neither a computer nor a ghost in the machine. The human
mind is unique; it is not only the epicenter of our knowledge but
also the outer limit of our intellectual reach. Not to solve the
riddle of the self-aware mind, writes Torey, goes against the
evolutionary thrust that created it. Torey proposes a model that
brings into a single focus all the elements that make up the
puzzle: how the brain works, its functional components and their
interactions; how language evolved and how syntax evolved out of
the semantic substrate by way of neural transactions; and why the
mind-endowed brain deceives itself with entelechy-type impressions.
Torey first traces the language-linked emergence of the mind, the
subsystem of the brain that enables it to be aware of itself. He
then explores this system: how consciousness works, why it is not
transparent to introspection, and what sense it makes in the
context of evolution. The "consciousness revolution" and the
integrative focus of neuroscience have made it possible to make
concrete formerly mysterious ideas about the human mind. Torey's
model of the mind is the logical outcome of this, highlighting a
coherent and meaningful role for a reflectively aware humanity.
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