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Mindwaves : thoughts on intelligence, identity, and consciousness

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Title

Mindwaves : thoughts on intelligence, identity, and consciousness

Call No

BF311

Authors

Blakemore, Colin
Greenfield, Susan

Subjects

Consciousness.
Intellect.
Thought and thinking.
Artificial intelligence.
Brain--Physiology.

Language

English

Published

Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987.

Publication Desc

ix, 525 p. : ill., ports.

ISBN

0631146229

LCCN

86018387

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General Note

Includes index.

Content Note

pt. 1.Persons: What makes an individual?: Divided brains -divided minds? / Donald MacKay -- Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit -- Schizophrenia and human individuality / Gordon Claridge -- Individuality / Hans Eysenck -- Innate and cultural aspects of human non-verbal communication / Michael Argyle -- Why psychoanalysis is not a science / Anthony Storr -- Psychoanalytic explanation, with special reference to historical material / Brian Farrell -- pt. 2. Animals: How do they think, and do they have minds?: Animal minds / Nicholas Mackintosh -- Thoughts without words / Herbert Terrace -- The description and evaluation of animal emotion / Stephen Clark -- Minding and mattering / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- The evolution of animal signals / John Krebs -- Intelligence: a comparative perspective / Euan Macphail -- Intelligence -a reply to Euan Macphail / Jennifer Hornsby -- pt. 3. Machines: Could they have minds?: Minds and brains without programs / John Searle -- In defence of artificial intelligence -a reply to John Searle / Richard Gregory -- How could consciousness arise from the computations of the brain? / Philip Johnson-Laird -- Minds, machines and mathematics / Roger Penrose -- Could a machine be conscious? / Colin McGinn -- pt. 4. Ideas: how brains could have minds, and why: Brain and mind, two or one? / Sir John Eccles -- Neuropsychology and the nature of consciousness / Larry Weiskrantz -- The mind-brain relation: a pseudoproblem? / Jnos Szentágothai -- 'Mindness' as a functional state of the brain / Rodolfo Llinás -- The biological role of consciousness / Horace Barlow -- The inner eye of consciousness / Nicholas Humphrey -- The nature of conscious awareness / John Crook -- pt. 5. Problems: What is mind?: Can neuroscience contribute to philosophy? / Ed Hundert -- The order of the mind / Paul Seabright -- Mind, brain and self-conscious mind / Ted Honderich -- The mind-brain identity as a scientific hypothesis: a second look / Jeffrey Gray -- Languages, minds and brains / Peter Hacker -- The grammar in your head / Roy Harris.