Intersensory origins of mind : a revisit to emergent evolution

In Intersensory Origin Of Mind Thorne Shipley Proposes A Fundamental Revision Of The Core Of Modern Psychology. With A Serious Respect For The History Of Science, Shipley Shows The Profound Limits Of Linear, Mechanistic And Naively Reductionistic Accounts Of The Mind, And Proposes Instead A Sensory Rationalist Position Which Builds Upon The Principles Of Emergent Evolution. In This Way, Also, He Begins The Construction Of A Scientific Foundation For The Psychotherapeutic Process.--book Jacket. Combining Several Diverse Perspectives, From The Physiological Optics Of Helmholtz, The Perceptual Science Of Kohler, The Visual Electro-physiology Of Hubel/wiesel To The Theories Of Dewey, Polanyi, Cassirer, Chomsky, Freud And Piaget, Intersensory Origin Of Mind Is An Ambitious Humanistic Synthesis Of Sensory Science. It Will Need To Be Read By Anyone With An Interest In Philosophical Psychology, The Nature Of Human Consciousness And The Origin Of Mind.--book Jacket. Thorne Shipley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of illustrations......Page 12 Preface......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 19 Some starting points for a new humanistic psychology......Page 22 Many valid approaches to mind......Page 33 Introduction to the natural history of mind......Page 63 The perception of routes, methods, and linear arguments......Page 90 Time as quality from routes as durations......Page 114 The multimodality of space-quality......Page 129 Ideas: another complex quality of experience......Page 139 Ideas of objects vs. ideas of ideas......Page 159 Specific contribution of the human senses to cognitive function......Page 178 The mind is like a......Page 197 Key concepts in theoretical neurology......Page 213 The origin of free will......Page 227 The neural foundations of accelerated self-awareness......Page 241 Crucial concepts for pedagogy and child development......Page 243 Afterword......Page 247 Appendix: a short listing of some influential works......Page 264 Index......Page 267 Thorne Shipley shows the profound limits of linear, mechanistic and naively reductionistic accounts of the mind, proposing instead a sensory rationalistic position which builds on the principles of emergent evolution.