The Creative Loop: How The Brain Makes A Mind (Helix Books) - Softcover

Harth, Erich

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9780201489385: The Creative Loop: How The Brain Makes A Mind (Helix Books)

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ISBN 10: 0201489384 ISBN 13: 9780201489385

Publisher: Basic Books, 1995

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Discusses how the conscious self is created by the brain, explains brain structure, and explores the mind-body connection

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Erich Harth was Professor of Physics at Syracuse University.

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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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