Noises from the Darkroom: The Science and Mystery of the Mind
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Guy Claxton. Noises from the Darkroom: The Science and Mystery of the Mind
Noises from the Darkroom. The Science and Mystery of the Mind. Guy Claxton
Table of Contents
Epigraph
Foreword
ONE Science and Mystery
The Overestimation of Consciousness
Creatures of Belief
The See-Through Mind
Reasonable Doubt
Science
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Evolutionary Beginnings
TWO Body-Building: The Origins of Life
We Do Not Compute
A Brief History of Slime
What is Evolution?
THREE The Plastic Brain
Bodies as Systems
The Inner Web
Walkie-Talkie
Getting Around
Sophistication and The. Proliferation of Needs, Part 1
Neural Webs
Plastic Brains
The Brain’s Priorities
FOUR The Self-Organizing Organizer
Brain-Mind language
The Octopus Discotheque
Priming
Resources and Attention
The Brain with No Self
The Continuum of Attention
How the Brain Behaves
FIVE Mosaic Mind
Brain Clumsiness: The Proliferation of Needs, Part 11
Effectiveness is Not Necessarily Tidy
Keeping the Brain on Track
Mini-Worlds
Overcoming Internal Isolation
SIX The Pressures of Society
The Mixed Blessing of Community
The Machiavellian Primate
Modem Times
SEVEN Languaging the Brain
The Enquiring Mind
Thinking
Dreaming and Imagination
Churning Concepts from the Milk of Experience
Rumination
Language Lift-Off
The Trouble with Words
EIGHT The Language of the Self
The Layers of Self
The Thing-ing of People
Projections as Templates for Self-Discovery
Social Approval
Moral Schizophrenia
Establishing Head Quarters
Mistaken Identity
A Summary of Self
Anthropomorphism
NINE Affluence, Leisure and Learning
The Golden Age of Homo Sapiens
The Glimmerings of Choice
Play-Time
Exploration
The Invention of Science
Projects and Plans
Empathy and War
TEN Identity and Survival
On Deciding Who to Be
Wiring Your Self up to the Mains
Dying to Stay Alive
The Proliferation of Needs: Part 111
The Horizon of Fashion
The Thrill of the Chase
Being Right
ELEVEN Accentuate the Permanent: the Narrative Self
The Origins of Fiction
The Story-teller’s Craft
The Pitfalls of Narration
Where is that Voice Coming From?
The Community of Selves
The Self in Sum
TWELVE Alarums and Excursions
On the Importance of Being Arrestable
The Startled Brain
The Dawn of Conscious Awareness
The Frequency of Interruptions
The Body of Consciousness
THIRTEEN Feelings and Seeings
The Feelings of Conscious Awareness
Confusion
The Compassionate Gene
The Positive Emotions
The Sensory World
Worry
The Quality of Consciousness
FOURTEEN The Circumcision of Consciousness
The Integrated Psyche
Enter Villain, Stage Left
Pathologizing the Unconscious
Fear of Losing what We Never Really Had
The Mind’s Petard
FIFTEEN The Cultivation of Ignorance
The Mechanism of Ignorance
Shock
Breakthrough and Breakdown
SIXTEEN Stupidity: the Retardation of Perception
Seeing in Slow Motion
We’re All Naive Realists Really
Perceptual Lethargy
The Sophistication of Experience
The Invisible Self
Flybottles
SEVENTEEN Myths to Live By
Contemporary Myths of Health and Death
Myths of Maturity
Myths of Nature
Myths of Wealth and Time
Myths of Relationship
Myths of Feeling
The Myth of How to Be Happy
EIGHTEEN Myths of the Mind
Metaphors for Mind
The Myth of Self
The Escape from Pure Reason
NINETEEN Unconsciousness — The Essential Mystery
The Neglect of Mystery
De-pixilation
Science as Myth-Busting
Cognitive Science
Neurological and Clinical Evidence
Normal Perception
Implicit Memory
Hypnosis
Anaesthesia
Learning
Brain Activity
TWENTY The Reconsecration of Unconsciousness
The Quality of Mystical Experience
The Psychology of Mysticism
Self Suspended
Losing Your Inhibitions
Where Does God Come In?
Mysticism as Encountering the Unconscious
Buddhism
TWENTY ONE The Restoration of Sanity
Psychotherapy
Temporary Losses of Self-Consciousness
Shocks to the System
Mindfulness
Night School
The Easing of Belief
The Rehabilitation of Serenity
Notes. Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Index
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Title Page
Epigraph
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Chapter 15 The Cultivation of Ignorance
Chapter 16 Stupidity: the Retardation of Perception
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