Yanina Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 9294707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yanina Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yanina |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland, OR, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Consciousness Hype
The great flood of books on consciousness shows no sign of receding: 'the scientific race for consciousness is on'. If the flood is a race, a journalist observes, 'it is an unconventional one in which neither the starting line nor the finish have been agreed on. The arguments are not only over answers to questions, they are over what the questions should be, and what the terms of discussion mean.... Disagreements are dismayingly large, and on occ…
On How the Pieces Do not Come Together to Produce the Whole
Consciousness According to James
To illustrate the Mind's ghostly presence in the current debate on consciousness and its relation to the brain, this paper first reviews Searle's (1995a, 1995b) `The Mystery of Consciousness', next lets William James (1890) enter the debate, and last introduces his theory of consciousness as based on my interpretation of The Principles of Psychology. The theory distinguishes between and explains the neuronal mechanisms of (1) the conscious or pur…
The Perceiving Brain
According to the standard model of perception, the brain is a Turing Machine; its software matches `mental representations' of the outside world with its reflections on the retina. According to more recent computational models, the brain computes retinal images; `mental representations' are superfluous. According to the new biological theory of perception (Calvin, 1989; Edelman, 1989, 1992), the brain needs neither `mental representations' nor re…
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The Perceiving Brain
According to the standard model of perception, the brain is a Turing Machine; its software matches `mental representations' of the outside world with its reflections on the retina. According to more recent computational models, the brain computes retinal images; `mental representations' are superfluous. According to the new biological theory of perception (Calvin, 1989; Edelman, 1989, 1992), the brain needs neither `mental representations' nor re…
The Consciousness Hype
The great flood of books on consciousness shows no sign of receding: 'the scientific race for consciousness is on'. If the flood is a race, a journalist observes, 'it is an unconventional one in which neither the starting line nor the finish have been agreed on. The arguments are not only over answers to questions, they are over what the questions should be, and what the terms of discussion mean.... Disagreements are dismayingly large, and on occ…
On How the Pieces Do not Come Together to Produce the Whole
Consciousness According to James
To illustrate the Mind's ghostly presence in the current debate on consciousness and its relation to the brain, this paper first reviews Searle's (1995a, 1995b) `The Mystery of Consciousness', next lets William James (1890) enter the debate, and last introduces his theory of consciousness as based on my interpretation of The Principles of Psychology. The theory distinguishes between and explains the neuronal mechanisms of (1) the conscious or pur…
Psychology (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Consciousness (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works)