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The four realms of existence : a new theory of being human / Joseph E. LeDoux.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674261259
  • 9780674261259
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 612.8/233 23/eng/20230302
LOC classification:
  • QP360.5 .L43 2023
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks QP360.5 .L43 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001525665

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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