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Before consciousness : in search of the fundamentals of mind / edited by Zdravko Radman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Exeter : Imprint Academic, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845409357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF315 .B446 2017
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Subject: Without consciousness we would not have the experientially flavoured world we have, but without the non-conscious we would not have it at all; for we would not be able to breathe, eat, move, walk, feel, mimic, gesture, laugh, et cetera, and even see, talk, remember, reason, understand, think, imagine, and make myriad spontaneous decisions as we continuously do in all life situations, from trivial to existential ones. Without consciousness we would not be the kind of creatures we are, but what makes us really unique is our specific non-conscious constellation - a basis from which all mentality germi.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Foreword, Zdravko Radman; Introductory Essay: Consciousness in Light of the Non-Conscious Brain, Joseph LeDoux; Body matter; Consciousness Meets the Unconscious; Elegant Actors for a Smooth Unconscious to Conscious Transition, Alain Berthoz; There is No Pure Consciousness and No Innocent Unconscious, Zdravko Radman; The Interdependence between Conscious and Unconscious Processes, Donish Cushing, Reza D. Ghafur and Ezequiel Morsella; As Above, So Below: Tangled Loops between Consciousness and the Unconscious, Axel Cleeremans.

Higher-Order Awareness, Misrepresentation, and Function, David RosenthalDoing Complex Cognitive Tasks in a Non-Conscious Way; Unconscious Perception and the Function of Consciousness, Jesse Prinz; Prenoetic Effects on Perception and Judgment, Shaun Gallagher; The Anatomy of an (Unconscious) Decision, Ben R. Newell; Memory, Consciousness, and the Hippocampus, Thomas P. Reber; Can We Think Unconsciously Via Analogy? Penka Hristova; The Unconscious Sophistication of Skills; Habits and the Integration of Conscious and Non-Conscious Human Actions, Javier Bernacer and Jose Ignacio Murillo.

Flow, Choke, Skill: The Role of the Non-Conscious in Sport Performance, Massimiliano CappuccioAuditory Verbal Hallucinations and Inner Speech: A Predictive Processing Perspective, Sam Wilkinson and Charles Fernyhough; 'Efforts of the Culivated Mind': Neurological Impairment, Intention, and Attention to the Body, Jonathan Cole; An Epilogue, Chris D. Frith; Back matter; Notes on Contributors.

Without consciousness we would not have the experientially flavoured world we have, but without the non-conscious we would not have it at all; for we would not be able to breathe, eat, move, walk, feel, mimic, gesture, laugh, et cetera, and even see, talk, remember, reason, understand, think, imagine, and make myriad spontaneous decisions as we continuously do in all life situations, from trivial to existential ones. Without consciousness we would not be the kind of creatures we are, but what makes us really unique is our specific non-conscious constellation - a basis from which all mentality germi.

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