
Questioning Consciousness
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- QUESTIONING CONSCIOUSNESS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Differences between Conscious and Non-conscious Processing: Why They Make a Difference
- 1. The Legacy of Behaviorism
- 2. 'Derivatively' versus 'Primitively' Unconscious Processes and the Various Levels of Semi-consciousness
- 3. The Danger of Equivocating the Language of Consciousness: The Crucial Distinction Between 'Knowing' and Knowing
- 4. The Distinction Between 'Desire' and Desire and Its Importance for Cognitive Theory
- The Primacy of the Subjunctive Imagination in Conscious Processing
- CHAPTER ONE. The Relation between Imaginary and Perceptual Contents
- 1. Different Conscious Modalities with Similar 'Content': A Puzzle for Neuroscientists
- 2. The Crucial Relation between 'Looking-for' and 'Looking-at'
- 3. Consciousness of Images and of Negations
- Consciousness of A Priori Negations of Contradictory Images
- 4. Early and Late Selection for 'Attention': A Synthesis
- 5. The Primacy of the Efferent over the Afferent in Conscious Processing
- 6. Afferent-Efferent Relations in Dreaming and Waking Consciousness
- 7. Transition to the Problem of Concepts
- CHAPTER TWO. From Images to Concepts
- 1. The Relation between Images and 'Imageless Concepts'
- 2. The Role of Inhibition
- 3. Future Anticipations and Subjunctive Conditionals
- 4. Conclusion
- CHAPTER THREE. Images, Logic, and Mental Development
- 1. How Logical Inference Rules Are Acquired and Executed
- (a) Learning and executing inference rules: Two sets of images or one ?
- (b) How can images ground syntax?
- (c) How are semantic differences bridged in working with image patterns?
- (d) How users of logic recognize rhythm patterns
- 2. How Do Concepts Evolve from Images? A Developmental Perspective
- 3. General Implications for Cognitive Theory
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Ontological Status of Consciousness
- 1. Formulating the Essential Ontological Problem
- 2. Why Theories of Interactionism and Causal Epiphenomenalism Have Failed
- 3. Process and Substratum: How Consciousness and Its Physiological Correlates Can Be Inseparable yet Different
- 4. The Multiple Realizability Problem
- 5. Why the Process-Substratum Model Is Not a Psychophysical Identity Theory
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Priority of Process over Substratum: Consciousness as an Organic Phenomenon
- 1. How Does 'Desire' Become Desire? Internal Conflict as an 'Ecological' Problem
- 2. The Relationship between Consciousness and Organicity
- 3. The Process-Substratum Relation: A Closer Look
- 4. Conclusion
- CHAPTER SIX. Memory, Emotion, and Symbolization
- 1. Toward a Process-Substratum Approach to Memory, Emotion, and Symbolization
- 2. Gendlin's 'Implicit Bodily Sense'
- 3. How the Brain Learns to Recognize and Re-enact Efferent Memory-Behaviors
- 4. Further Questions about Memory: Single-Trial Learning and the 'Feeling of Recognition'
- CONCLUSION The Centrality of Subjunctives
- REFERENCES
- Index
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