The centered mind: what the science of working memory shows us about the nature of human thought
This book offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of the working-memory system. This system has been much stu...
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| Summary: | This book offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of the working-memory system. This system has been much studied by cognitive scientists. It enables sensory images to be sustained and manipulated through attentional signals directed at midlevel sensory areas of the brain. When abstract conceptual representations are bound into these images, we consciously experience ourselves as making judgments or arriving at decisions. Thus one might hear oneself as judging, in inner speech, that it is time to go home, for example. However, our amodal (non-sensory) propositional attitudes are never actually among the contents of this stream of conscious reflection. Our beliefs, goals, and decisions are only ever active in the background of consciousness, working behind the scenes to select the sensory-based imagery that occurs in working memory. They are never themselves conscious |
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Contents Preface ix Figures xi 1. Introduction 1 1. On Reflection 1 2. The Importance of the Issues 9 3. Working Memory 12 4. The Sensory-Based Account 14 5. The Road Ahead 15 6. Conclusion 18 2. Propositional Attitudes 19 1. Beliefs and Desires 19 2. Goals, Decisions, and Intentions 24 3. Active versus Passive: A Problem 27 4. The Case for Amodal Attitudes 31 5. The Case for Structured Attitudes 39 6. Conclusion 44 3. Perception, Attention, and Consciousness 46 1. Kinds of Consciousness 46 2. Global Broadcasting 51 3. Consciousness and Attention 54 4. The Nature of Attention 58 5. Amodal Content in Perception 64 6. Conclusion 73 4. The Nature of Working Memory 75 1. Working Memory, Imagery, and Perception 75 2. Working Memory and Consciousness 82 3. Working Memory and Attention 88 4. Mental Rehearsal 92 5. The Sensory Basis of Working Memory 100 6. Conclusion 107 5. The Unity of Working Memory 108 1. An Amodal Workspace? 108 2. The Problem of Self-Knowledge 112 3. The Importance of Working Memory 118 4. The Case of the Missing Variance 124
viii CONTENTS 5. The Default Network 134 6. Conclusion 138 6. Working Memory in Action 139 1. Unconscious Goal Pursuit 139 2. Attention as Action 142 3. Mental Rehearsal and Mental Manipulation 152 4. Generating Inner Speech 161 5. Creativity and Mind Wandering 166 6. Conclusion 172 7. Reasoning, Working Memory, and Attitudes 174 1. Dual Systems of Reasoning 174 2. How System 2 Reasoning Works 182 3. System 2 Reasoning in Action 185 4. A Second Mind? 191 5. An Extended Mind? 197 6. Conclusion 202 8. The Evolution of Reflection 203 1. The Central Puzzle 203 2. The Age of Attention 207 3. Episodic Memory and Prospection in Birds 211 4. Working Memory in Mammals 216 5. Evolutionary Developments across Species? 223 6. Conclusion 228 9. Conclusion: The Conscious Mind as Marionette 229 1. Against the Intuitive View 229 2. The Positive Picture 232 3. Implications for Philosophy and Future Questions 234 4. Conclusion 241 References 243 Index of Names 275 Index of Subjects 288
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