Main description:

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.

Contents:

Introduction.Chapter I. The Subjective Experience: a brief review. A definition of subjectivity - Subjectivity and mental research - Conclusions.

Chapter II. Two mentalistic portraits. The book and its content - The author: a vastly condensed version Conclusions.

Chapter III. Workings of the mind: consciousness and the unconscious. A personal vignette: "finding the road" - An objective example: "the silicon pretender" - Conclusions.

Chapter IV. The unfolding of Life: the genetic endowment. A personal vignette: "meet the gazelle" - An objective example: "preaching to the creatures" - Conclusions.

Chapter V. The evolutionary archetypes: values and needs. A personal vignette: "making a fire" - An objective example: "the Master" - Conclusions.

Chapter VI. One of the line: values and needs. A personal vignette: "the shell, the urn" - An objective

example: "what my father told me" - Conclusions.

Chapter VII. Affective connectedness: the qualia web. Affectivity - Interactive reality - Intentionality -

A personal vignette: "I lost my hat" - An objective example: "the universe of objects" - Conclusions.

Chapter VIII. Talking to the stars: the quanta web. Personal reflections - An objective example: "the undiscovered element" - Conclusions.

Chapter IX. Putting it all together. A personal vignette: "the kitchen counter" - An objective example: "Psyche and Eros" - Conclusions.

Chapter X. Some closing reflections.

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