A Theory of Immediate Awareness: Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence
Author:   M. Estep
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
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9789048162512


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This book presents a realist, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary theory of immediate awareness showing it is the most primitive cognitive network underlying all our natural intelligence. Including preattentive and attention processes, as well as primitive relations of the senses, imagination and memory, immediate awareness is a kind of knowing deeply embedded and interwoven throughout our multiple kinds of natural intelligence. It permits as well as drives our knowing how, our bodily intelligence. Against the Cartesian mind-body split found in earlier and current theories, the author shows how immediate awareness permits emergent properties of mind in multilayered primitive relations of touching and moving in bodily kinesthetic intelligence. Contrary to existing theories, she argues that sensation is not cognitively ""neutral"", nor does it require a ""representation"" in order to be accessible to cognitive processes.

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Author:   M. Estep
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9789048162512


ISBN 10:   9048162513
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. The Problem of Immediate Awareness.- 2. The Primitive Relations of Knowledge by Acquaintance.- 3. Arguments Against Immediate Awareness: The Case of Naturalism.- 4. What does the Evidence Show?.- 5. Boundary Set S: At the Core of Multiple Intelligences.- 6. Can Neural Networks Simulate Boundary Set S?.- 7. Computability of Boundary Set S.- 8. Summary and Conclusions.- References.

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