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Author(s): | Erich Harth | |||
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Publisher: | Basic Books | |||
Year: | 1993 | |||
Language: | English | |||
Pages: | 210 pages | |||
Size: | 13 MB | |||
Extension: | djvu | |||
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[content title="Description"]The author of Windows on the Mind offers a new way of understanding consciousness that takes us out of the old Newtonian world and into the almost mythical realm of contemporary physics--reconciling the cold facts of neuroscience with our most humanistic aspirations.
" Rejecting computer-based models of the brain as flawed, Syracuse physics professor Harth sets forth a provocative alternative model according to which simple neural mechanisms account for creativity and imagination. If Harth ( Windows on the Mind ) is correct, the mental image of a rose or a rabbit occurs near the beginning of the sensory pathways, not in a higher ``command center'' of the brain. In his model, the cerebral cortex creates these images using the thalamus as a ``sketchpad'' on which it projects the image and modifies it, drawing on previous sensory input. Similar ``creative loops'' exist for all the senses, combining to form a system of neural networks between the brain and the body that generates messages about the world. Consciousness, in this view, wells up through a reactivation of images, and selfhood arises from a deliberately assembled self-image grounded in experience encoded as neural memory. Based on the author's two decades of research, this elegantly written treatise will challenge neuroscientists, psychologists and students of the mind. Illustrated."
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[content title="Content"]Preface
Introduction
THE UNIVERSE
The IT and the It
What It Has Done for Us
The Anthropic Principle
Spontaneous Animation
Origin of Life
Creative Animation: End Before Cause
The March of the Androids
The Indigenous Android and the Promethean Gene
BODY AND MIND
McCulloch’s Query: Why the Mind Is in the Head
The Nuts and Bolts of Mind
The Senses
Neurons
The Neural Net
Up and Down: Sensors and Effectors [/content]
[content title="About the author"]Erich Harth (1919-2016) was a professor of physics and neurobiology at Syracuse University from 1957 to 1990. He also earned his bachelor's degree (1943), master’s degree (1948) and PhD (1951) in physics from Syracuse University.
Erich Harth was born in Kritzendorf, a small town near Vienna, Austria. He graduated from high school in 1937 and promptly joined the Austrian Air Force. When German forces invaded Austria shortly after, Harth fled to Lisbon, Portugal, and later made his way to Rio, Brazil. He eventually arrived in the United States in 1940. Harth then took a bus to Syracuse, New York with help from the Syracuse Peace Council, an organization that helped refugee students. He began studying physics at Syracuse University in 1941. [/content]
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