The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human /
LeDoux, Joseph E.
The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human / Joseph E. LeDoux. - xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What Is a Human Being? -- "Self" Doubt -- The Personality Contest -- It's Only Words -- A Path Forward -- The Secret of Life -- Bodies -- The Duality of Biological Existence -- It Took Nerve -- Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems -- Romer's Rendition -- Viscerology -- The Behavioral Thoroughfare -- Internalizing the External World -- What Is Cognition? -- Mental Models -- Model-Based Cognition in Evolution -- Foraging in the Mind -- The Cognitive Brain -- Is Consciousness Mysterious? -- Kinds of Consciousness -- Making Consciousness Meaningful -- Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness -- Non-Knowing Consciousness -- What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals -- Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others.
"Joseph LeDoux offers a new framework for understanding how biological processes give rise to the sense of being an independent personality in the world. Theorizing the intricate interdependence of the bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious realms, Ledoux explores the evolution of the human as an "ensemble of being" unique among Earth's animals"--
0674261259 9780674261259
2023000719
GBC3H6369 bnb
021212683 Uk
Biology
Cognition
Cognitive neuroscience
Consciousness
Human beings
Neurobiology
Self
QP360.5 / .L43 2023
612.8/233
The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human / Joseph E. LeDoux. - xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What Is a Human Being? -- "Self" Doubt -- The Personality Contest -- It's Only Words -- A Path Forward -- The Secret of Life -- Bodies -- The Duality of Biological Existence -- It Took Nerve -- Vertebrates and Their Nervous Systems -- Romer's Rendition -- Viscerology -- The Behavioral Thoroughfare -- Internalizing the External World -- What Is Cognition? -- Mental Models -- Model-Based Cognition in Evolution -- Foraging in the Mind -- The Cognitive Brain -- Is Consciousness Mysterious? -- Kinds of Consciousness -- Making Consciousness Meaningful -- Fact-Knowing and Self-Knowing Consciousness -- Non-Knowing Consciousness -- What Consciousness Might Be Like in Other Animals -- Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Others.
"Joseph LeDoux offers a new framework for understanding how biological processes give rise to the sense of being an independent personality in the world. Theorizing the intricate interdependence of the bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious realms, Ledoux explores the evolution of the human as an "ensemble of being" unique among Earth's animals"--
0674261259 9780674261259
2023000719
GBC3H6369 bnb
021212683 Uk
Biology
Cognition
Cognitive neuroscience
Consciousness
Human beings
Neurobiology
Self
QP360.5 / .L43 2023
612.8/233