The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience

A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Varela, Francisco J. (Author) ; Thompson, Evan (Author) ; Rosch, Eleanor (Author, Other)
Contributors: Kabat-Zinn, Jon 1944- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; The MIT Press 2016
In:Year: 2016
Edition:Revised edition.
Series/Journal:The MIT Press Ser.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cognitive science / Active learning
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Experiential Learning
B Buddhist meditations
B Cognition
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Description
Summary:A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to the Revised Edition -- Notes -- Introduction to the Revised Edition -- Notes -- References -- Introduction to the Revised Edition -- Enaction Clarified -- Personal Experience: Why Buddhism? -- Science and Buddhism -- Science and Enaction -- The Future -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Departing Ground -- 1 A Fundamental Circularity: In the Mind of the Reflective Scientist -- An Already-Given Condition -- What Is Cognitive Science? -- Cognitive Science within the Circle -- The Theme of This Book -- 2 What Do We Mean "Human Experience"? -- Science and the Phenomenological Tradition -- The Breakdown of Phenomenology -- A Non-Western Philosophical Tradition -- Examining Experience with a Method: Mindfulness/Awareness -- The Role of Reflection in the Analysis of Experience -- Experimentation and Experiential Analysis -- II Varieties of Cognitivism -- 3 Symbols: The Cognitivist Hypothesis -- The Foundational Cloud -- Defining the Cognitivist Hypothesis -- Manifestations of Cognitivism -- Cognitivism and Human Experience -- Experience and the Computational Mind -- 4 The I of the Storm -- What Do We Mean by "Self"? -- Looking for a Self in the Aggregates -- Momentariness and the Brain -- The Aggregates without a Self -- III Varieties of Emergence -- 5 Emergent Properties and Connectionism -- Self-Organization: The Roots of an Alternative -- The Connectionist Strategy -- Emergence and Self-Organization -- Connectionism Today -- Neuronal Emergences -- Exeunt the Symbols -- Linking Symbols and Emergence -- 6 Selfless Minds -- Societies of Mind -- The Society of Object Relations -- Codependent Arising -- Basic Element Analysis -- Mindfulness and Freedom -- Selfless Minds -- Divided Agents -- Minding the World -- IV Steps to a Middle Way -- 7 The Cartesian Anxiety -- A Sense of Dissatisfaction.
ISBN:0262335492