Publication

2002 - MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Language

English

Word Count

63,250 words, Guess

Page Count

253 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002029595
  • LibraryThing1579967
  • Goodreads2197224

Classifications

  • LCCBF

Description

"The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Imagination and the meaningful brainMIT Press2002-01-01

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