Second nature : brain science and human knowledge /

Burgeoning advances in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness - the very centre of human concern - by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman offers a new theory of knowledge based on s...

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Main Author: Edelman, Gerald M.
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Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006
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505 0 |a 1. The Galilean arc and Darwin's program -- 2. Consciousness, body, and brain -- 3. Selectionism : a prerequisite for consciousness -- 4. From brain activity to consciousness -- 5. Epistemology and its discontents -- 6. A brain-based approach -- 7. Forms of knowledge : the divorce between science and the humanities -- 8. Repairing the rift -- 9. Causation, illusions, and values -- 10. Creativity : the play between specificity and range -- 11. Abnormal states -- 12. Brain-based devices : toward a conscious artifact -- 13. Second nature : the transformation of knowledge. 
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