The Self and Its Brain: Argument for Interactionism - Softcover

Popper, Sir Karl; Eccles, Sir John C.

 
9780710095848: The Self and Its Brain: Argument for Interactionism

Synopsis

Distinguished philosopher Karl Popper and Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist Sir John Eccles argue the case for a highly distinctive view of the relation of mind and body.

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Review

." . . anyone with an interest in philosophy, science, and the future of the world should read it."
-"British Journal of Psychiatry
." . . a massive achievement . . . a theory of beautiful simplicity, with all the relevant data clearly set out down to recent research findings."
-"The Jerusalem Post

From the Back Cover

The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of physical events, upon the mind of the recipient of the letter. the authors of this book stress that they cannot solve the body mind problem; but they hope that they have been able to shed new light on it.

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