Imagination and the Meaningful BrainThe ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns matter into imagination. In this volume, 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. |
Contents
Uncertain Steps toward a Biology of Meaning | 1 |
Metaphor Memory and Unconscious Imagination | 25 |
Imaginations Autonomy | 49 |
The Corporeal Imagination | 69 |
Intentionality and the Self | 91 |
Directing the Imagination | 111 |
The Uniqueness of Human Feelings | 131 |
Feelings and Value | 151 |
Imagining Other Minds | 171 |
Mirror Neurons Gestures and the Origins of Metaphor | 183 |
Experience and the MindBody Problem | 193 |
Notes | 205 |
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