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This book presents a systematic exploration of the subjective experience, keeping the investigation for the most part within a subjective first person perspective through the use of "vignettes" as sources of data. It also uses incorporates a '"third person" objective approach when that is relevant. The goal of Journeys in the Mind is to capture and convey the operations of the mind: both the shared blueprints common to the elaboration of subjective knowledge as well as the immense fishnet of personalized variables that operate in each mental phase-space and act upon the blueprints to continuously recategorize them into sets of coherent, dynamic outcomes, or mental landscapes. Dr. Sanguineti's meditative perspective holds the promise to enrich the way we understand the workings of the human mind.
List of contents
Introduction.- The Subjective Experience: a brief review.- Two mentalistic portraits: the book and its content.- Workings of the mind: consciousness and the unconscious.- The unfolding of Life: the genetic endowment.- The evolutionary archetypes: values and needs.- One of the line: values and needs.- Affective connectedness: the qualia web.- Talking to the stars: the quanta web.- Putting it all together.- Some closing reflections.- References.
