UID:
almafu_9959244718502883
Format:
1 online resource (294 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-32649-X
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9786612326493
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1-4106-0654-6
Content:
The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about the brain. Through this analysis, the first and most obvious observation is that consciousness appears as a volumetric spatial void, containing colored objects and surfaces. This
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 The Two Worlds of Reality; Chapter 2 The Dimensions of Conscious Experience; Chapter 3 The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena; Chapter 4 The Computational Mechanism of Perception; Chapter 5 The Perception of Illumination; Chapter 6 Recognition versus Completion; Chapter 7 Relation to Neurophysiology; Chapter 8 Harmonic Resonance Theory; Chapter 9 Image Theory of Language and Cognition; Chapter 10 Motor Control and Field Theory; Chapter 11 A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis; References; Author Index; Subject Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-65279-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8058-4176-8
Language:
English
