The Cooperative Neuron is part of a revolution that is occurring in the sciences of brain and mind. It explores the new field of cellular psychology, a field built upon the recent discovery that many neurons in the brain cooperate to seek agreement in deciding whats relevant in the current context. This cooperative context-sensitivity provides the cellular foundations for knowledge, doubt, imagination, self-development, and the search for purpose in life. This emergingfield has far-reaching and fundamental implications for psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, and the philosophy of mind.In a clear and accessible style, the book explains the neuroscience to psychologists, the psychology to neuroscientists, and both to philosophers, students of the behavioral and brain sciences, and to anyone intrigued by the enduring mystery of how brains can be minds.
Introduction; Life, Brain, and Mind: Marvels of Cooperation Between Diverse Individuals; Cerebral Neocortex: Hierarchies of Abstraction in Physical Matter That Knows and Doubts, Thinks and Feels, Intends, and Hopes; Neocortical Pyramidal Cells That Cooperate by Being Sensitive to Context; Cooperative Neurons in Various States of Mind and Brain; What Cooperative Neurons Do for Mental Life; Evolution and Development of Cooperative Neurons; Pathologies of Cooperative Neuronal Processing; An Information-Theoretic View of Context-Sensitivity; Difficulties and Unresolved Issues; Minds Place in Nature;
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