The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind (Hardcover)

by Erich Harth (Author)

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Rejecting computer-based models of the brain as flawed, Syracuse physics professor Harth sets forth a provocative alternative model according to which simple neural mechanisms account for creativity and imagination. If Harth ( Windows on the Mind ) is correct, the mental image of a rose or a rabbit occurs near the beginning of the sensory pathways, not in a higher "command center" of the brain. In his model, the cerebral cortex creates these images using the thalamus as a "sketchpad" on which it projects the image and modifies it, drawing on previous sensory input. Similar "creative loops" exist for all the senses, combining to form a system of neural networks between the brain and the body that generates messages about the world. Consciousness, in this view, wells up through a reactivation of images, and selfhood arises from a deliberately assembled self-image grounded in experience encoded as neural memory. Based on the author's two decades of research, this elegantly written treatise will challenge neuroscientists, psychologists and students of the mind. Illustrated.
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• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: Perseus Books (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201570793
• ISBN-13: 978-0201570793
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
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