文档介绍：The Conscious
Mind
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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Understanding Beliefs, Nils J. Nilsson
Computing: A Concise History, Paul Ceruzzi
The Conscious Mind, Zoltan L. Torey
Crowdsourcing, Daren C. Brabham
Free Will, Mark Balaguer
Information and the Modern Corporation, James Cortada
Intellectual Property Strategy, John Palfrey
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Open Access, Peter Suber
Paradox, Margaret Cuonzo
Waves, Fred Raichlen
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The Conscious
Mind
Zoltan L. Torey
TheMIT Press | Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Torey, Zoltan.
The conscious mind / Zoltan L. Torey.
pages cm.—(The MIT Press essential knowledge series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-52710-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Cognition. 2. Consciousness. 3. Brain. I. Title.
2014
153—dc23
2014003649
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To Margaret Dawn
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Contents
Series Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Background to the Brain: The Identity of
Consciousness 13
3 Neoteny: The Breaking of the Hominid Impasse 29
4 The Nuts and Bolts of Language 39
5 Cognitive Bootstrapping: The