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A Mind for Tomorrow : Facts, Values, and the Future.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780313003752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Mind for TomorrowDDC classification:
  • 612.8/2
LOC classification:
  • QP411.S76 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- A Mind for Tomorrow -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: At the Crossroads -- I ONE WORLD, TWO CULTURES -- 1 Steaming Toward the Apocalypse -- ICEBERGS NEAR AND FAR -- THE ENEMY WITHIN -- Global Warming -- Mass Extinctions and Loss of Biodiversity -- Resource Depletion -- Environmental Disasters -- Human Conflict -- Economic Inequality -- Overpopulation -- FACTS, VALUES, AND THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- 2 The Great Divide -- FACTS, THEORIES, AND VALUES -- WHEN THE TWO CULTURES WERE ONE -- THE CHASM OPENS -- THE WORLDVIEW OF SCIENCE -- THE WORLDVIEW OF RELIGION -- NOTES -- II BRAIN, MIND, AND BELIEFS TO LIVE BY -- 3 Brain and Mind -- THE PUZZLE OF MIND AND BRAIN -- BEFORE THE SPLIT BRAIN -- TWO HALVES OF THE MIND -- NOTES -- 4 The Emergent Ghost: Mysteries of Consciousness -- THE EMERGENT GHOST -- FROM MATTER TO MIND -- NOTES -- 5 In Search of a Science of Values -- EVALUATION OF CONSEQUENCES -- THE GENERATION OF VALUES -- CAN VALUES BE DERIVED FROM SCIENCE? -- THE ISSUE OF FREE WILL -- TOWARD A GLOBAL ETHIC -- GUIDELINES FOR MORAL DECISION MAKING -- NOTES -- III A MIND FOR TOMORROW -- 6 Stimulus and Response: Reaction to a New Worldview -- TOWARD A NEW DEFINITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- QUESTIONS OF TERMINOLOGY -- THE HIDDEN CODE OF THE HUMAN MIND -- SURVIVAL OF THE SOUL -- QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GRAND DESIGN -- NOTES -- 7 Beyond Sperry -- ETHICS FROM EVOLUTION -- LIGHTS OF PERVERTED SCIENCE -- KNOWLEDGE OR CERTAINTY -- TOWARD A SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE -- AVOIDING THE ICEBERGS -- PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ACTION -- NOTES -- Appendix: A Last Tribute to Roger W. Sperry -- ABSTRACT -- PART I: MY ATTRACTION TO SPERRY'S WORK AND THOUGHT -- PART II: SPERRY'S SUCCESSIVE ADVANCES INTO NEW AND UNEXPLORED TERRITORY -- PART III: THE REORIENTATION OF HUMANITY TOWARD QUALITY SURVIVAL IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD -- A NEW DEFINITION OF "THE HIGHEST GOOD" -- REFERENCES.
Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- About the Authors.
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Cover -- A Mind for Tomorrow -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: At the Crossroads -- I ONE WORLD, TWO CULTURES -- 1 Steaming Toward the Apocalypse -- ICEBERGS NEAR AND FAR -- THE ENEMY WITHIN -- Global Warming -- Mass Extinctions and Loss of Biodiversity -- Resource Depletion -- Environmental Disasters -- Human Conflict -- Economic Inequality -- Overpopulation -- FACTS, VALUES, AND THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- 2 The Great Divide -- FACTS, THEORIES, AND VALUES -- WHEN THE TWO CULTURES WERE ONE -- THE CHASM OPENS -- THE WORLDVIEW OF SCIENCE -- THE WORLDVIEW OF RELIGION -- NOTES -- II BRAIN, MIND, AND BELIEFS TO LIVE BY -- 3 Brain and Mind -- THE PUZZLE OF MIND AND BRAIN -- BEFORE THE SPLIT BRAIN -- TWO HALVES OF THE MIND -- NOTES -- 4 The Emergent Ghost: Mysteries of Consciousness -- THE EMERGENT GHOST -- FROM MATTER TO MIND -- NOTES -- 5 In Search of a Science of Values -- EVALUATION OF CONSEQUENCES -- THE GENERATION OF VALUES -- CAN VALUES BE DERIVED FROM SCIENCE? -- THE ISSUE OF FREE WILL -- TOWARD A GLOBAL ETHIC -- GUIDELINES FOR MORAL DECISION MAKING -- NOTES -- III A MIND FOR TOMORROW -- 6 Stimulus and Response: Reaction to a New Worldview -- TOWARD A NEW DEFINITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- QUESTIONS OF TERMINOLOGY -- THE HIDDEN CODE OF THE HUMAN MIND -- SURVIVAL OF THE SOUL -- QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GRAND DESIGN -- NOTES -- 7 Beyond Sperry -- ETHICS FROM EVOLUTION -- LIGHTS OF PERVERTED SCIENCE -- KNOWLEDGE OR CERTAINTY -- TOWARD A SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE -- AVOIDING THE ICEBERGS -- PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ACTION -- NOTES -- Appendix: A Last Tribute to Roger W. Sperry -- ABSTRACT -- PART I: MY ATTRACTION TO SPERRY'S WORK AND THOUGHT -- PART II: SPERRY'S SUCCESSIVE ADVANCES INTO NEW AND UNEXPLORED TERRITORY -- PART III: THE REORIENTATION OF HUMANITY TOWARD QUALITY SURVIVAL IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD -- A NEW DEFINITION OF "THE HIGHEST GOOD" -- REFERENCES.

Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- About the Authors.

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