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Title Mindwaves : thoughts on intelligence, identity, and consciousness / edited by Colin Blakemore and Susan Greenfield.

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

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  BF311 .M554 1987    Available  ---
Description ix, 525 pages : illustrations, portraits
Note Includes index.
Contents 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 -- Description and evaluation of animal emotion / Stephen Clark -- Minding and mattering / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- 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 -- Mind-brain relation: a psuedoproblem? / János Szentágothai -- 'Mindness' as a functional state of the brain / Rodolfo Llinás -- Biological role of consciousness / Horace Barlow -- Inner eye of consciousness / Nicholas Humphrey -- Nature of conscious awareness / John Crook -- pt. 5. Problems: What is mind?: Can neuroscience contribute to philosophy? / Ed Hundert -- Order of the mind / Paul Seabright -- Mind, brain and self-conscious mind / Ted Honderich -- Mind-brain identity as a scientific hypothesis: a second look / Jeffrey Gray -- Languages, minds and brains / Peter Hacker -- Grammar in your head / Roy Harris.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Intelligence.
Intelligence artificielle.
Conscience.
Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Brain.
Brain.
Intellect.
Intellect.
Thought and thinking.
Thought and thinking.
Artificial intelligence.
Indexed Term Man Mind related to brain
Subject Artificial intelligence.
Indexed Term Man Brain related to mind
Subject Intellect.
Conscience.
Added Author Blakemore, Colin.
Greenfield, Susan.
ISBN 0631146229 : $19.95 (U.S.)
9780631146223