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The thesis advanced in this book is that feeling and cognition
actualize through a process that originates in older brain
formations and develops outward through limbic and cortical fields
through the self-concept and private space into (as) the world. An
iteration of this transition deposits acts, objects, feelings and
utterances. Value is a mode of conceptual feeling that depends on
the dominant phase in this transition: from desire through interest
to object worth. Among the topics covered are subjective time and
change, the epochal nature of objects and their temporal
extensibility and the evolution of value from inorganic matter into
organic form. The theory of microgenesis informs this work.
According to this theory, acts and objects evolve in milliseconds
through phases that replicate patterns in forebrain evolution. The
progression in the actualization of the mind/brain state is from
archaic to recent in brain formation, from unity to diversity, from
past to present and from mind to world. An account is given of the
diversity of felt experience avoiding the reductionist moves
characteristic of biological materialism and the inherent dualism
of psychoanalytic and related theories. This book is intended for
any reader interested in the psychology of the inner life and
philosophy of mind, including philosophers, psychologists,
psychiatrists and others with an interest in problems of value and
moral feeling.
In this volume, distinguished neurologist Jason W. Brown extends
the microgenetic theory of the mind by offering a new approach to
the problem of time and free will. Brown bases his work on a
unitary process model of brain and behavior. He examines the
problem of subjective time and free will, the experiential present,
the nature of intentionality, and the creative properties of
physical growth and mental process.
This detailed look at the development of microgenetic theory
provides a comprehensive and coherent model of cognitive processing
in the brain, based on patterns of breakdown in pathology. In so
doing, it illustrates the clinical record that supports and
documents microgenetic theory, and presents a basis for future work
in the study of the brain. Coverage includes topics in language and
dominance, the function of the right hemisphere, action,
perception, memory, and the concept of time.
Originally published in 1989, this sourcebook for anatomic studies
in the neuropsychology of visual perception contains chapters on
disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception and
spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery. The neurological
basis of visual perception and the disorders that result from brain
damage are discussed. At the time the chapters in this volume
constituted a state of the art survey in this area and provided
data that were essential for the development of models of normal
image and object formation.
This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the
context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of
studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in
process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the
central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is
subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this
respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist
trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love
is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory
of the nature of value and its relation to feeling, belief, and to
drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and appraisal is
critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as jealousy, envy,
anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general theory of
emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain state.
Originally published in 1989, this sourcebook for anatomic studies
in the neuropsychology of visual perception contains chapters on
disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception and
spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery. The neurological
basis of visual perception and the disorders that result from brain
damage are discussed. At the time the chapters in this volume
constituted a state of the art survey in this area and provided
data that were essential for the development of models of normal
image and object formation.
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This detailed look at the development of microgenetic theory
provides a comprehensive and coherent model of cognitive processing
in the brain, based on patterns of breakdown in pathology. In so
doing, it illustrates the clinical record that supports and
documents microgenetic theory, and presents a basis for future work
in the study of the brain. Coverage includes topics in language and
dominance, the function of the right hemisphere, action,
perception, memory, and the concept of time.
This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the
context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of
studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in
process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the
central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is
subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this
respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist
trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love
is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory
of the nature of value and its relation to feeling, belief, and to
drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and appraisal is
critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as jealousy, envy,
anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general theory of
emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain state.
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Every step forward, in life and in thought, is a return to a
beginning in that it empties that much more the plan by which the
journey is directed. The journey that began this work was with the
recondite lore of aphasia. This early work led to a psychology of
language, perception, action, and feeling based on the principle of
microgenesis. This psychology and its corre sponding brain process
are detailed in my book, Life of the Mind, a vade mecum for the
ideas that are developed further in this work. Now this psychology,
a single thought exposed at progressively deeper levels, is
extended to the problems of time awareness, consciousness and the
nature of the self. It is astonishing, is it not, that an aphasic
error, a slip of the tongue, can be a peephole on some of the
ultimate mysteries of life? Over the last few years I have had the
occasion to present portions of this work at various conferences
and to different audiences, and have found, to my dismay, that the
theory is often difficult for many to grasp.
In this volume, distinguished neurologist Jason W. Brown extends
the microgenetic theory of the mind by offering a new approach to
the problem of time and free will. Brown bases his work on a
unitary process model of brain and behavior. He examines the
problem of subjective time and free will, the experiential present,
the nature of intentionality, and the creative properties of
physical growth and mental process.
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