{"product_id":"imagination-and-the-meaningful-brain-bradford-books-9780262633437","title":"Imagination and the Meaningful Brain (Bradford Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns \"matter into imagination.\" In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain  psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind\/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation  his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology  as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds  must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Assuming that other mammals are conscious and conscious of their feelings  Modell emphasizes evolutionary continuities and discontinuities of emotion. The limbic system  the emotional brain  is of ancient origin  but only humans have the capacity for generative imagination. By means of metaphor  we are able to interpret  displace  and transform our feelings. To bolster his argument  Modell draws on a variety of disciplines--including psychoanalysis  cognitive psychology  neurobiology  evolutionary biology  linguistics  philosophy of language  and philosophy of mind. Only by integrating the objectivity of neuroscience  the phenomenology of introspection  and the intersubjective knowledge of psychoanalysis  he claims  will we be able fully to understand how the mind works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646695071797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262633434","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262633437.jpg?v=1781677405","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/imagination-and-the-meaningful-brain-bradford-books-9780262633437","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}