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Mind, Body, and Brain: The Emergence of a Question Mind, Body, and Brain: The Emergence of a Question
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Neural Monism: The Materials of the Enlightenment Mind Neural Monism: The Materials of the Enlightenment Mind
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Complexity and a Mechanical Theory of Mind Complexity and a Mechanical Theory of Mind
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Hume and the Science of the Je Ne Sais Quoi Hume and the Science of the Je Ne Sais Quoi
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The Method of Analogy The Method of Analogy
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The Co-Constitution of Mind and Language The Co-Constitution of Mind and Language
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Observing Observation: The Mathematics of Mind Observing Observation: The Mathematics of Mind
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Paying Attention Paying Attention
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Madness and Mental Life Madness and Mental Life
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Conclusions: On Panoramas, Vertigo, and Reveries Conclusions: On Panoramas, Vertigo, and Reveries
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Abstract
For the first time in the eighteenth century, mind itselfbecame of urgent interest. Mind could not be taken as something merely given or foundational to human beings. Rather, as the sensationalist and empiricist psychologies of Locke, Hume, Condillac, Hartley, and others insisted, the mind is a contingent and emergent thing, a product of a complex interaction of sensation, brain, person, and world. This chapter explores how the mind became dynamic, self-creating, and self-organizing during this period. It also explores the paradoxes that attached to the self-organizing mind. Explaining the emergence of something from nothing required a faith that complex systems can have qualities wholly lacking in their component parts. The challenges of understanding this, the chapter argues, energized the Enlightenment fascination with cognitive processes. The chapter ranges widely from the neural monism of mid-century materialists, to the debates about the origins of language, to new directions in probability research.
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