Intelligence in the flesh : why your mind needs your body much more than it thinks / Guy Claxton.
If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you'd better think again-or rather not "think" at all. In his provocative new book, Guy Claxton draws on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to reveal how o...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Limbering Up
- 2. A Brief History of Anti-bodies
- 3. Bodies What Are We Made of?
- 4. Why the Body Needs a Brain
- 5. How Brain And Body Talk to Each Other
- 6. Emotions And Feelings
- 7. The Embodied Mind
- 8. The Welling Up of Consciousness
- 9. The Augmented Body
- 10. Craftiness and Expertise
- 11. Rehab How Can I Get My Body Back?
- 12. The Embodied Life Self, Spirit and Society.