Review Of "Intersensory Origin Of Mind: A Revisit To Emergent Evolution" By T. Shipley

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Book Review

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Published In

Choice

Abstract

This is a thoughtful, leisurely, and often rambling disquisition on the sensory origins of mind. Writing with loving care and a sensitivity to mythology, poetry, and art, Shipley develops a thesis tracing all manner of cognitive functioning--including problem solving, space and time perception, self-awareness, and intention--to the efforts of the organism to coordinate multiple, intersensory inputs. Although the analysis is based on a view of "emergent evolution," the actual evolutionary processes at stake in these developments are only tangentially treated. The work does make ample reference to major trends in contemporary cognitive inquiry, but such reference is less integrative than negative, serving primarily to frame Shipley's thesis as oppositional. Consequently, the volume falls outside most current dialogues on the mind, including those that would question the very dualistic premise on which the volume is based. For upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

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