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Toward Consilience

The Bioneurological Basis of Behavior, Thought, Experience, and Language

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  1. Gerald A. Cory

    1. Center for Behavioral Ecology, San Jose, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 1-5

  3. Brain Algorithms of Behavior and Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Algorithms of the Brain

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 9-14

    3. The Primary Algorithm of Our Brain: What is it?

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 15-27

    4. The Primary Algorithm and Behavior: Life, What Does it do?

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 29-39

    5. The Second Algorithm: Our Brain of Conflict

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 41-58

    6. The Algorithmic Rules of Reciprocal Behavior

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 59-69

  4. Brain Algorithms in Psychodynamics, Cognition Philosophy and Mysticism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. How We Think: Brain Algorithms in Psychodynamics

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 73-81

    3. How We Philosophize: The Primary Algorithm, Dialectic, and Logic in the West

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 83-98

    4. How We Philosophize: Dialectic, Being, and Harmony in the East

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 99-102

    5. Brain Algorithms in Mysticism, Cannibalism

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 103-113

    6. Brain Algorithms of Adaptation, Rationality, and Exploration

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 115-123

  5. Brain Algorithms in Ethics and Social Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Buber’s I and You: The Inner and Outer Dynamic of the Reciprocal Algorithm

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 127-132

    3. Totalization: The Dialectical Thought of Teilhard de Chardin

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 133-136

    4. Habermas: Dialectics, Ethics, and Social Theory

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 137-143

  6. Brain Algorithms in Philosophy and Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Primary Algorithm in Contemporary Philosophy

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 147-154
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About this book

The present work is the second in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s. Like the earlier work, The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics, Shaping the Rational and Moral Basis ofOrganization, Exchange, and Choice (Plenum Publishing, 1999), it may also be considered to respond to the call for consilience by Edward O. Wilson. I agree with Wilson that there is a pressing need in the sciences today for the unification of the social with the natural sciences. I consider the present work to proceed from the perspective of behavioral ecology, specifically a subfield which I choose to call interpersonal behavioral ecology th Ecology, as a general field, has emerged in the last quarter of the 20 century as a major theme of concern as we have become increasingly aware that we must preserve the planet whose limited resources we share with all other earthly creatures. Interpersonal behavioral ecology, however, focuses not on the physical environment, but upon our social environment. It concerns our interpersonal behavioral interactions at all levels, from simple dyadic one-to-one personal interactions to our larger, even global, social, economic, and political interactions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Behavioral Ecology, San Jose, USA

    Gerald A. Cory

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Toward Consilience

  • Book Subtitle: The Bioneurological Basis of Behavior, Thought, Experience, and Language

  • Authors: Gerald A. Cory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4271-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46436-2Published: 31 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6918-9Published: 17 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4271-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 294

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Evolutionary Biology, Epistemology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology

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