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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

By Andy Clark

Book information

Publisher
Mit Pr
Year
1996
ISBN
9780262032407, 0262032406
LCC
BD418.3 .C53 1997
Open Library ID
OL9598967M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2483855 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
240\240
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

I am reading Clark's book to learn how the understanding of mind, brain, and action has changed since I got a doctorate in cog. psych many decades ago. I am learning a lot from it. Being There clarifies several complex issues by, among other things, providing vivid examples. My only criticisms are minor: - About halfway through the book, it started to get a bit repetitive. I didn't need to be told again and again that perception and cognition are active and use the world as its own memory. - There are a few errors. E.g., page 29 puts the area of high visual resolution (i.e., the fovea) at "0.01 percent" of the retina. It's 1 percent (0.01) of the retina, not 0.01 percent.

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