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In How Brains Make Up Their Minds, Walter J. Freeman Charts The Brain's Mind, Progressing From Single Nerve Cells To Cooperative Nerve Cell Assemblies To The Emergence Of Complex Brain Patterns. By Drawing On New Developments In Brain Imaging And Theories Of Chaos And Nonlinear Dynamics, He Shows How Brains Create Intentions And Meanings. In Doing So He Finds New Ways To Answer Age-old Philosophical Questions About Self-determination And Individual Responsibility. He Finds Descartes Mistaken In His Dictum I Think, Therefore I Am--his Brain Had Already Accomplished The Fact And Was Merely Keeping His Ego Informed.--jacket. Self-control And Intentionality -- Meaning And Representation -- Dynamics Of Neurons And Neuron Populations -- Sensation And Perceptionn -- Emotion And Intentional Action -- Awareness, Consciousness, And Causality -- Knowledge And Meaning In Societies. Walter J. Freeman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [165]-169) And Index.

Author

Freeman, Walter J.

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297842576

Subjects

Medical, Philosophy, Science

Rating

3.74 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14