The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
- ISBN-10
- 1643138006
- ISBN-13
- 9781643138008
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-05
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Thomas R. Verny
Description
As groundbreaking synthesis that promises to shift our understanding of the mind-brain connection and its relationship with our bodies. We understand the workings of the human body as a series of interdependent physiological relationships: muscle interacts with bone as the heart responds to hormones secreted by the brain, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. To make an organism function, no one component can work alone. In light of this, why is it that the accepted understanding that the physical phenomenon of the mind is attributed only to the brain? In The Embodied Mind, internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas R. Verny sets out to redefine our concept of the mind and consciousness. He brilliantly compiles new research that points to the mind’s ties to every part of the body. The Embodied Mind collects disparate findings in physiology, genetics, and quantum physics in order to illustrate the mounting evidence that somatic cells, not just neural cells, store memory, inform genetic coding, and adapt to environmental changes—all behaviors that contribute to the mind and consciousness. Cellular memory, Verny shows, is not just an abstraction, but a well-documented scientific fact that will shift our understanding of memory. Verny describes single-celled organisms with no brains demonstrating memory, and points to the remarkable case of a French man who, despite having a brain just a fraction of the typical size, leads a normal life with a family and a job. The Embodied Mind shows how intelligence and consciousness—traits traditionally attributed to the brain alone—also permate our entire being. Bodily cells and tissues use the same molecular mechanisms for memory as our brain, making our mind more fluid and adaptable than we could have ever imaged.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Embodied Mind, revised edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
By Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor RoschThis revised edition includes substantive introductions by Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch that clarify central arguments of the work and discuss and evaluate subsequent research that has expanded on the themes of the book, including the ...
-
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
By Mark JohnsonThis book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and ...
-
Embodied Minds in Action
By Michelle Maiese, Robert HannaSmiley, T., ''Relative Necessity,''Journal ofSymbolic Logic 28 (1963): 113–34. Smith, M., The Moral Problem. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. ... Stoutland, F., ''Davidson on Intentional Behavior,'' in E. LePore and. 402 bibliography.
-
Philosophy In The Flesh
By George LakoffFauconnier , G. , and E. Sweetser , eds . Spaces , Worlds , and Grammar . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . ... Grounded Spaces : Deictic - Self Anaphors in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson . Language and Literature 6 : 1 , 7-28 .
-
Ecology of the Brain: The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind
By Thomas FuchsGallagher, S. (2005). How the body shapes the mind. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Gallagher, S., Zahavi, D. (2008). The phenomenological mind. An introduction to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. London: Routledge.
-
Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
By Arnie CoxTaking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously.
-
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
By Andy Clark... Yeh, & Spence, 2012. This would go someway towards explaining why simple language-based measures (such as vocabulary size) are good predictors of performance on non-verbal intelligence tests. See Cunningham & Stanovich, 1997.
-
Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning
By Sheila L. Macrine, Jennifer M.B. FugateThe book provides an up-to-date, inclusive, and essential resource for those involved in educational planning, design, and pedagogical approaches.
-
The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture
By Peter GarrattThis book identifies the ‘cognitive humanities’ with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science.
-
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
By Massimiliano L. CappuccioThis landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists that considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.