Mind and Nature
Essays on Time and Subjectivity
This collection of essays extends the microgenetic theory of the
mind/brain state to basic problems in process psychology and
philosophy of mind. The author's microtemporal model of brain
activity and psychological events, which was originally based on
clinical studies of patients with focal brain damage, is here
extended to such topics as the concept of the moment in Buddhist
philosophy, conscious and unconscious thought, the nature of the
self, subjective time and aesthetic perception.
The author develops a highly original psychology of mental
process, actually a 'cognitive metaphysics', which is grounded in
brain physiology and clinical psychopathology. A central theme is
that the natural categories that arise in the extensibility of
temporal data are continuous with conceptual structures in the
human mind.
Metapsychology.
Foundations of cognitive metaphysics.
The concept of momentariness.
Fundamentals of process neuropsychology.
II.
Consciousness.
Psychoanalysis and process theory.
The unconscious (Freud) and process theory.
Consciousness and the categories of nature.
III.
Agency and Value.
Neuropsychology of the self-concept .
Subjectivity and scientific thought.
On aesthetic perception.
