| Self and Process: Brain States and the Conscious Present 1991 Edition Contributor(s): Brown, Jason W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461278104 ISBN-13: 9781461278108 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Medical | Neuroscience - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
| Dewey: 153 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.69 lbs) 201 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |