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How the Mind Comes into Being
Butz, Martin V.; Kutter, Esther F.
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Description for How the Mind Comes into Being
Paperback. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the body Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: GTR; HPM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 966.
More than 2000 years ago Greek philosophers were pondering the puzzling dichotomy between our physical bodies and our seemingly non-physical minds. Yet even today, it remains puzzling how our mind controls our body, and vice versa, how our body shapes our mind. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the own body. By pursuing a ... Read more
More than 2000 years ago Greek philosophers were pondering the puzzling dichotomy between our physical bodies and our seemingly non-physical minds. Yet even today, it remains puzzling how our mind controls our body, and vice versa, how our body shapes our mind. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the own body. By pursuing a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198739692
SKU
V9780198739692
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About Butz, Martin V.; Kutter, Esther F.
With a Diplom with honors in computer science with a minor in psychology (University of Würzburg, Germany, 08/2001) and a PhD in computer science (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 10/2004), Dr. Butz has been pursuing interdisciplinary, collaborative research in cognitive science for more than fifteen years. He has published more than fifty journal articles in various disciplinary and ... Read more
Reviews for How the Mind Comes into Being
`This is a very timely book. It rises to the challenge of providing a basic introduction to cognitive neuroscience, while being true to the fact that the brain is embodied. This book beautifully articulates intriguing puzzles about how our mind controls the body and how our body shapes the mind. In short, this book is a brilliant and accessible synthesis' ... Read more