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Imagination and the meaningful brain
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Imagination and the meaningful brain

Author: Arnold H Modell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Series: Bradford book.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Arnold H Modell
ISBN: 026213425X 9780262134255
OCLC Number: 50270256
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xiv, 253 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Uncertain steps toward a Biology of meaning --
Metaphor, memory, and unconscious imagination --
Imagination's autonomy --
The corporeal imagination --
Intentionality and the self --
Directing the imagination --
The uniqueness of human feelings --
Feelings and value --
Imagining other minds --
Mirror neurons, gestures, and the origins of metaphor --
Experience and the mind-body problem.
Series Title: Bradford book.
Responsibility: Arnold H. Modell.
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Abstract:

"The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience."--Jacket.

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