Toward Consilience

The Bioneurological Basis of Behavior, Thought, Experience, and Language

AvGerald A. Cory Jr.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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This text establishes framework for consilience, the unification of the natural and social sciences. Grounded in physics, molecular biology, and evolutionary neuroscience," Toward Consilience" seeks to identify and trace the organic brain algorithms which, when replicated in our neural architecture, shape our human thought, behaviour, and language. Drawing on the work of Edward O. Wilson, Paul MacLean, and others, Dr. Corey presents a significant and thought-provoking effort at understanding what makes us human.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-10-31
Mått:178 x 254 x 22 mm
Vikt:801 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:294
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Springer Science+Business Media
ISBN:9780306464362

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1. Introduction.- 2. Algorithms of the Brain.- 3. The Primary Algorithm of our Brain. What is it?.- 4. The Primary Algorithm and Behavior. Life, What does it do?.- 5. The Second Algorithm: Our Brain of Conflict.- 6. The Algorithmic Rules of Reciprocal Behavior.- 7. How we think: Brain Algorithms in Psychodynamics.- 8. How we Philosophize: The Primary Algorithm, Dialectic, and Logic in the West.- 9. How we Philosophize: Dialectic, Being, and Harmony in the East.- 10. Brain Algorithms in Mysticism, Cannibalism.- 11. Brain Algorithms of Adaptation, Rationality, and Exploration.- 12. Buber’sIandYou: The Inner and Outer Dynamic of the Reciprocal Algorithm.- 13. Totalization: The Dialectical Thought of Teilhard de Chardin.- 14. Habermas: Dialectic, Ethics, and Social Theory.- 15. The Primary Algorithm in Contemporary Philosophy.- 16. Brain Algorithms and Human Language.- 17. The Limitations of Present Day Syntax Theory.- 18. Value, Context, and the Origin of Meaning: Spoken vs Written Language.- 19. Universal Grammar and the Evolution of Language.- 20. The Primary Algorithm and Chomsky’s Minimalist Program.- 21. Language, Brain, and Neuron.- 22. Further Thoughts on the Neural Organization of the Primary Algorithm.- 23. Further Thoughts on Physics and the Primary Algorithm.- 24. Conclusion.- Appendix 1: MacLean’s Triune Brain Concept: In Praise and Appraisal.- Appendix 2: The Primary Algorithmic Lexicon.