Mind In Science: A History Of Explanations In Psychology And Physics

PART I: FORGING SCIENCE FROM MYTH 1 - MIND IN MYTH * Babylonian * Egyptian * Greek * Modern Accounts of Myth 2 - TOOLS THAT CHALLENGED MYTH - Hand Tools - Mind Tools 3 - LESSONS FROM MACHINES 4 - EXORCISMS OF MIND - Alchemy to Chemistry - Astrology to Astronomy 5 - CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE - Ancient Concepts - Modern Concepts PART 2 - LINKS TO MIND 6 - LINKS OF LIGHT - Perceiving from a distance - Newton's theory of light - Light now - The world imaged in the eyes - Delay in the light link 7 - LINKS OF NERVE - Pneuma in nerves - Electricity in nerves: action potentials (nerve function) - Delay in the nerve link: the Personal Equation 8 - LINKS OF LOGIC - What are Deductive Links? - What are Inductive Links? PART 3 - LINKS OF MIND 9 - LINKS OF MEMORY 10 - THE NATURE AND NURTURE OF INTELLIGENCE 11 - LINKS OF MIND - Chains of Knowledge 12 - LINKS OF BRAIN - Brain Copies: - Brain Images: Rene Descartes - Brain Inferences: Hermann von Helholtz - Brain Analogues: Gestalt Psychology - Brain Models: Kenneth Craik - Cell Assemblies and Phase Sequences: Donald Hebb - Seeing without brain links? : J.J. Gibson - Seeing Machines: 13 - MEANING TO SAY 14 - MEANING TO DREAM PART 4: REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS 15 - WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? 16 - HOW ARE MIND AND BRAIN LINKED? PART 5 - MIND IN US 17 - The Self - Where is Mind? 18 - Science in Mind PART 6 - MIND IN SCIENCE 19 - the Nurture of Physics 20 - The Nature of Knowledge