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QP 402 .L43 2002 Synaptic self : how our brains become who we are / | QP 408 .B58 2005 The learning brain : lessons for education / | QP 411 .H35 2017 The neuroscience of intelligence / | QP 411 .L56 2002 I of the vortex : from neurons to self / | QP 411 .N599 2010 Out of our heads : why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness / | QP 430 .C58 2011 Braintrust : what neuroscience tells us about morality / | QP 443 .B585 2006 Spaces speak, are you listening? : experiencing aural architecture / |
Originally published: 2001.
"A Bradford Book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-293) and index.
Preface --
Motor Primacy and the Organization of Neuronal Networks: Thinking as Internalized Movement --
1. Setting Mind to Mind --
2. Prediction is the Ultimate Function of the Brain --
3. The Embedding of Universals through the Embedding of Motricity --
4. Nerve Cells and Their Personalities --
5. Lessons from the Evolution of the Eye --
6. The I of the Vortex --
7. Fixed Action Patterns: Automatic Brain Modules that Make Complex Movements --
8. Emotions as FAPs --
9. Of Learning and Memory --
10. Qualia from a Neuronal Point of View --
11. Language as the Child of Abstract Thought --
12. The Collective Mind? --
References --
Index.
"In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the "sea squirt." The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion
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