Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics

PART I: FORGING SCIENCE FROM MYTH1 - MIND IN MYTH* Babylonian * Egyptian * Greek* Modern Accounts of Myth2 - TOOLS THAT CHALLENGED MYTH- Hand Tools - Mind Tools3 - LESSONS FROM MACHINES4 - EXORCISMS OF MIND- Alchemy to Chemistry - Astrology to Astronomy 5 - CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE- Ancient Concepts - Modern ConceptsPART 2 - LINKS TO MIND6 - LINKS OF LIGHT- Perceiving from a distance- Newton's theory of light- Light now- The world imaged in the eyes- Delay in the light link7 - LINKS OF NERVE- Pneuma in nerves- Electricity in nerves: action potentials (nerve function)- Delay in the nerve link: the Personal Equation8 - LINKS OF LOGIC- What are Deductive Links?- What are Inductive Links?PART 3 - LINKS OF MIND9 - LINKS OF MEMORY10 - THE NATURE AND NURTURE OF INTELLIGENCE11 - LINKS OF MIND- Chains of Knowledge12 - LINKS OF BRAIN- Brain Copies: - Brain Images: Rene Descartes- Brain Inferences: Hermann von Helholtz- Brain Analogues: Gestalt Psychology- Brain Models: Kenneth Craik- Cell Assemblies and Phase Sequences: Donald Hebb- Seeing without brain links? : J.J. Gibson- Seeing Machines: 13 - MEANING TO SAY14 - MEANING TO DREAMPART 4: REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS15 - WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?16 - HOW ARE MIND AND BRAIN LINKED?PART 5 - MIND IN US17 - The Self- Where is Mind? 18 - Science in MindPART 6 - MIND IN SCIENCE19 - the Nurture of Physics20 - The Nature of Knowledge