Analysis Of Mind by Bertrand Russell
This work applies rigorous logical analysis to the phenomena of consciousness, arguing that mental states can be understood as configurations of sense-data, dispositions to behave, and physical processes rather than as products of an immaterial soul; it critiques dualism and naive introspection while seeking to reduce psychological concepts like memory, habit, association, emotion and the unconscious to relations among neutral events and physiological changes. The text develops an account of how complex mental occurrences are constructions from simpler experiential elements and habitual neural dispositions, emphasizes the continuity between mind and body, and suggests a form of neutral monism in which mental and physical descriptions are different ways of organizing the same underlying events.
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- 1921
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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