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  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
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  • Francisco J. Varela
  • 1992
  • Published by: The MIT Press
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The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xv-xx
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  1. I The Departing Ground
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  1. 1 A Fundamental Circularity
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  1. 2 What Do We Mean "Human Experience"?
  2. pp. 15-34
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  1. II Varieties of Cognitivism
  2. pp. 35-36
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  1. 3 Symbols
  2. pp. 37-58
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  1. 4 The I of the Storm
  2. pp. 59-82
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  1. III Varieties of Emergence
  2. pp. 83-84
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  1. 5 Emergent Properties and Connectionism
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  1. 6 Selfless Minds
  2. pp. 105-130
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  1. IV Steps to a Middle Way
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  1. 7 The Cartesian Anxiety
  2. pp. 133-146
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  1. 8 Enaction
  2. pp. 147-184
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  1. 9 Evolutionary Path Making and Natural Drift
  2. pp. 185-214
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  1. V Worlds without Ground
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  1. 10 The Middle Way
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  1. 11 Laying Down a Path in Walking
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  1. Appendix A
  2. p. 255
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  1. Appendix B
  2. pp. 256-258
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  1. Appendix C
  2. pp. 259-260
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  1. Notes
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  1. References
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  1. Index
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