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[Pages:92]Mind in Life

BIOLOGY, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND THE SCIENCES OF MIND

Evan Thompson

THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

Copyright ? 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2010

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Evan.

Mind in life : biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind / Evan Thompson.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978?0?674?02511?0 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0?674?05751?7 (pbk.)

1. Consciousness. 2. Philosophy of mind. 3. Phenomenology. 4. Mind and body.

5. Experience. I. Title.

B808.9.T45 2007

128'.2--dc22

2006050713

To

Gabriel Cohen Varela Maximilian Todd Williams

Gareth Todd Thompson

Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xi

PART ONE The Enactive Approach 1

ONE Cognitive Science and Human Experience 3 TWO The Phenomenological Connection 16 THREE Autonomy and Emergence 37 FOUR The Structure of Behavior 66

PART TWO Life in Mind 89

FIVE Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living 91 SIX Life and Mind: The Philosophy of the Organism 128 SEVEN Laying Down a Path in Walking:

Development and Evolution 166

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Contents

PART THREE Consciousness in Life 219

EIGHT Life beyond the Gap 221 NINE Sensorimotor Subjectivity 243 TEN Look Again: Consciousness and Mental Imagery 267 ELEVEN Temporality and the Living Present 312 TWELVE Primordial Dynamism: Emotion and Valence 360 THIRTEEN Empathy and Enculturation 382

APPENDIX A: Husserl and Cognitive Science 413 APPENDIX B: Emergence and the Problem of

Downward Causation 417 Notes 443 References 483 Index 527

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