The cerebral code : thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind /
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| Author / Creator: | Calvin, William H., 1939- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996. |
| Description: | iv, 256 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2546882 |
| Summary: | The Cerebral Code offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence. |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | iv, 256 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262032414 0262531542 |
