Article ID: CBB000551078

The Pale Cast of Thought: An Essay Review of Thinks… by David Lodge (2003)

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Barnett, S. A. (Author)


Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Volume: 28
Pages: 179--183


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on “The Literature of Science”
Language: English

When, in the twenty-first century, psychologists or popularisers ask 'what is consciousness?', or refer to the 'mind body problem', what are they up to?Does their discourse, sometimes called cognitive science, fall within the modern idea of the natural sciences? Like many before them, some try to reduce human beings to machines: both mind and the brain become computers. Kinds of knowledge outside the sciences are ignored or derogated. Cognitive scientists consequently make it difficult or impossible for them to understand themselves, let alone other people, or to adopt a moral stance. This essay, in contrast, was not generated by a computer, nor is it addressed to one.

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Authors & Contributors
Fuller, Gary
Salvat, Andrei
Frumer, Yulia
Taylor, Eugene
Schönfeld, Martin R.
Pulizzi, James J.
Concepts
Psychology
Cognitive science
Consciousness
Mind and body
Neurosciences
Philosophy of mind
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Places
New York City (New York, U.S.)
United States
Japan
Germany
France
Vienna (Austria)
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