Mind from Body
Mind from Body
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心灵来自身体
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195316988.001.0001
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发表时间：
2007
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影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
D. Tucker
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作者：
D. Tucker
虽然我们不再生活在相对简单的侏罗纪时代，即使我们没有意识到它们，在那个时代发展的原始哺乳动物大脑仍然生活在我们的头骨内，对我们的日常功能至关重要。我们今天在信息时代面临的挑战--如何处理我们收到的更大、更多样化和快速变化的输入--与我们的祖先在侏罗纪时代面临的挑战大不相同。当我们努力处理大量信息时，我们有时会问我们的大脑是否可以改变以帮助我们适应。事实上，我们的大脑总是逐渐改变的，所以我们应该问的问题是我们的大脑将如何改变，以及我们是否能够充分利用这些变化，甚至增强它们，以帮助我们跟上机器的加速进化。要了解我们的大脑将如何变化，我们首先需要了解它们是如何进化的，以及由此产生的大脑结构的相互作用，包括原始哺乳动物甚至爬行动物过程的遗迹，如何影响我们的思维和行为。在《来自身体的心灵》中，唐·塔克（Don Tucker）是有机信息处理方面最具原创性的思想家之一，他对我们的大脑如何变成今天的样子进行了引人入胜的分析，并对明天的大脑可能会是什么进行了有趣的推测。他提出了重要的研究，解释了个人经验如何创造我们每个想法的情感和动机基础，即使我们通常没有意识到它正在发生。塔克表明，在探索这些身体思维过程如何仍然决定我们如何对世界做出反应和做出决定时，我们可以在行动中变得更加理性，将自己从徒劳甚至自我毁灭的行为模式中解放出来，变得更有效率，甚至可能更明智。通过结合最新的科学思想和实践实验结果，明确和令人信服地表达，沿着一个假设决策的故事，塔克解释了当我们的思想努力保持信息时代的步伐时，我们的思维过程背后发生了什么。
Although we no longer live in the relative simplicity of the Jurassic age, and even though we are not aware of them, primitive mammalian brain that developed in that era still live on inside our skulls and remain crucial to our daily functions. The challenges we face today in the information age--how to process the vastly greater, more varied and quickly changing inputs we receive--are very different from those that our ancestors faced during the Jurassic age. As we struggle to process overwhelming amounts of information, we may sometimes ask whether our brains can change to help us adapt. In fact, our brains have always changed gradually, so the questions we should ask are really how our brains will change, and whether we will be able to take full advantage of the changes, perhaps even enhance them, to help us keep up with the accelerating evolution of machines. To understand how our brains will change, we need to understand how they evolved in the first place, as well as how the interactions of the resulting brain structures, including the relics of primitive mammalian and even reptilian processes, influence how we think and act. In Mind from Body, Don Tucker, one of the most original thinkers about organic information processing, provides a fascinating analysis of how our brains have become what they are today and speculates intriguingly about what they could be tomorrow. He presents important research that explains how personal experience creates the emotional and motivational bases of each of our thoughts, even though we are usually not aware that it is happening. Tucker shows that in exploring how these bodily thought processes still determine how we react to the world and make decisions, we can become more rational in our actions, free ourselves from fruitless or even self-destructive patterns of behavior, become more efficient, and perhaps even wiser. By combining the most up-to-date scientific thought and hands-on experimental results, expressed clearly and compellingly, along with a story of hypothetical decision-making, Tucker explicates what is happening behind our thought processes as our minds struggle to maintain the pace of the information age.