{"product_id":"brain-mind-hardcover","title":"Brain-Mind - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThagard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language, and the self. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrain-Mind\u003c\/em\u003e develops a brilliant account of mental operations using promising new ideas from theoretical neuroscience. Single neurons cannot do much by themselves, but groups of neurons work together to accomplish powerful kinds of mental representation, including concepts, images, and rules. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMinds enable people to perceive, imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create, and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Unification comes from systematic application of Chris Eliasmith's powerful Semantic Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book belongs to a trio that includes \u003cem\u003eMind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNatural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e. They can be read independently, but together they make up a \u003cem\u003eTreatise on Mind and Society\u003c\/em\u003e that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Thagard\u003c\/strong\u003e is a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist who has written many books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Brain and the Meaning of Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eThe Cognitive Science of Science\u003c\/em\u003e (MIT Press, 2012). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45553301520486,"sku":"9780190678715","price":143.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/lmhibErbsA9780190678715.webp?v=1777240237","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/brain-mind-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}