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(2018) From Aristotle to cognitive neuroscience, Dordrecht, Springer.
A nervous system configured by intersubjectivity and a grasp of the distinction between truth and falsity shape our neural function so that we sense, perceive, cognise, and act in ways that elaborate sensori-motor activity to fit us for cognitive function under norms of truth and falsity conveyed by and linked to speech or "propositionising." The resulting self-formation fits us for a world in which meaningful symbolism and normatively constrained communication imposes truth and falsity and depth as the basis of a well-organised intellect. Thus our sensori-motor and language-related neural functions are fitted for the joint demands of the natural world and the socio-political (or discursive) world through triply responsive neurocognitive assemblies shaped in human cognitive development and underpinning human consciousness, thought, and action.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93635-2_3
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Gillett, G. (2018). Evolutionary neurology and the human soul, in From Aristotle to cognitive neuroscience, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 45-72.
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