- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (10 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595273297
- ISBN-13: 978-0595273294
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.7 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,074,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. That issue is what is known as the mind-body problem. How does a body support a mind with its brain? Pivotal to the book is the author's working out of an adverbial concept of mind that is user-friendly to the materialist cause. It is upon the strength of this adverbial concept that the author has come to hold that the conceptual gap between the neurobiological and the psych-cognitive could in fact be bridged. It is also the author's contention that despite shortcomings of other materialist approaches that have been taken in our time, an intelligible case for the truth of materialism could still be made in the form of a biological emergent two-aspect scenario, i.e., when the adverbial concept of mind he advocates is also brought to bear. All in all, what The Mystery of Mind offers is a systematic introduction to one of the living philosophical issues that have engaged the human intellects for more than two thousand years. This is also the central issue that has motivated research in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the philosophy of mind in our time.
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The author is schooled in philosophy and religion. But he is not an academic philosopher. This book is the fruit of his labor subsequent to retirement. It is his way of squaring himself with what has been left dangling in his mind for the last thirty years.
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This review is from: The Mystery of Mind: A Systematic Account of the Human Mind Toward Understanding Its Own Realization (Paperback)
This book is about the trials and tribulations of the human mind toward understanding the wherewithal of its own realization. It is designed, in my view, to play several roles. One is to offer philosophy students an overall perspective on the ins and outs of the old dualism-materialism controversy over the existence of disembodied souls, as well as the historical relevance of immaterialism (idealism) to this debate. Another is to show why the traditional model of mind to which many of us still implicitly subscribe is mistaken, and to offer an alternative concept of mind that is more user friendly to the materialist cause. Thirdly, it is to offer students in the philosophy of mind a critical bird¡¦s eye view over the contemporary materialist landscape together with the various approaches that have been taken toward dissolving the traditional mind-body problem. Lastly, it is to propose a way of bringing this very old problem to a possible resolution in the light of what is known, as against the darkness of what is yet to be fully understood.The author is school in philosophy and religion. But he is not academic philosopher. This book is the fruit of five years of hard labor subsequent to his retirement from active employment. It is his way of squaring himself with issues that have been left dangling at the back of his mind for the last thirty years. At the end of it all, it is his contention that it does not really take a soul to have a mind, having a functioning body-brain is already sufficient.
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