Mind Games 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
by Cohen, MartinEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2011-03-22
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This original and innovative book is an exploration of one of the key mysteries of the mind, the question of consciousness. Conducted through a one month course of both practical and entertaining 'thought experiments', these stimulating mind-games are used as a vehicle for investigating the complexities of the way the mind works. By turns, fun, eye-opening and intriguing approach to thinking about thinking, which contains inventive and engaging 'thought experiments' for the general reader Includes specially drawn illustrations by the French avant-garde artist, Judit Reunites the social science disciplines of psychology, sociology and political theory with the traditional concerns of philosophy
Author Biography
Martin Cohen is editor of The Philosopher, and one of today's best-known authors introducing key issues in philosophy, social science and politics to a wider audience. His books (more than 250,000 copies sold) have helped revolutionise the way mainstream philosophy is discussed and written about, spawning a new generation of popular introductions to the subject. Refusing to accept traditional constraints on subject matter and style, he has been aptly dubbed by his Taiwanese publisher as the 'enfant terrible' of philosophy.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Forward! | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Influencing the Reptile Mind | |
| Words | |
| Task: Spend all day trying only to think for yourself | |
| Identifying the Reptile | |
| Task: Identify, and talk to, the reptile in your head | |
| The Fallacy of the Lonely Fact | |
| Task:Try testing someone's sense of randomness. Offer them a little bet | |
| The Immortals | |
| Task: Write (or at least start) a book | |
| My Three Favourite Animals | |
| Task: Complete an innocuouslooking survey about animals | |
| The Prison of the Self | |
| Task: Attempt to escape ... | |
| Trappism | |
| Task: Don't talk to anyone | |
| Observing the Development of Little Minds | |
| Dotty Experiments on Teddies | |
| Task: Get Piaget and Teddy to try to unconserve the numbers | |
| (a.m.) The Cow in the Field-that-gets-built-on | |
| Task: Make a board game for children (p.m.) The Mountains of Egocentricity | |
| Task: Construct a device to measure egocentricity (evening) Behave Yourself! | |
| Task: Apply behaviourist principles to those around you | |
| The Dissonance of the $1 Volunteers | |
| Task: Make the children (or employees, or partners) do some boring repetitive activities | |
| Investigating Memory | |
| Task: Memory test: how many of the words can you remember? | |
| Jargon for Dummies | |
| Task: Manage someone | |
| Be Lucky! | |
| Task: Find out how unlucky you are | |
| This Is Not a Self-help Book | |
| Task: Boil down a self-help book | |
| Experiments in Practical Philosophy | |
| The Upside-down Goggles | |
| Task: Make - and wear - some special goggles | |
| Fire-walking and Cold Baths | |
| Task: Prepare a bed of red-hot coals or wood embers | |
| R-pentomino | |
| Task: Make some of your very own microbes | |
| (a.m.) Proprioception (Scratching Noses Test) | |
| Task: Fool your senses into believing your nose is several feet long (p.m.) Hear the McGurk Effect | |
| Task: Fool your senses into hearing things that aren't there ... | |
| (a.m) Go for a Long Walk on the Much Too Long Coastal Path | |
| Task: Measure it in centimetres (p.m.) Make a Bed of Nails | |
| Task: Lie on it overnight | |
| Now Getting Really Rather Dangerous ... | |
| Task: Look at something boring on the Internet | |
| Doodle | |
| Task: Draw something | |
| Miscellaneous Philosophical Investigations | |
| (a.m.) Molyneux's Problem | |
| Task: No more dangerous tasks. Pause to conceptualise (p.m.) Mary's Room | |
| Test 3: Why is this one here? | |
| Unable To See Change | |
| Task: Check who you are living with is the same person as yesterday | |
| Cascade Theory | |
| Task: Chair (or rather rig) a discussion | |
| Explain Yourself! | |
| Task: Try to predict your day | |
| Investigating Un-Reason and Argument | |
| Task: Play on ambiguity | |
| Subliminal Messages | |
| Task: Become aware of hidden messages all around you | |
| (a.m.) The Power of Prayer | |
| Task: Pray a little (p.m.) Pray for Good Crops | |
| Task: Pray a little bit harder | |
| The Horror and the Beauty. Or Vice Versa | |
| Task: Have a vision - or at least a dream | |
| Strange Things | |
| Task: Conduct some telepathy | |
| Manipulating Minds down on the Farm | |
| Task: Read between the lines ... | |
| Debriefing | |
| Influencing the Reptile Mind | |
| Words | |
| Identifying the Reptile | |
| The Fallacy of the Lonely Fact | |
| The Immortals | |
| My Three Favourite Animals | |
| The Prison of the Self | |
| Trappism | |
| Observing the Development of Little Minds | |
| Dotty Experiments on Teddies | |
| (a.m.) The Cow in the Field-that-gets-built-on (p.m.) The Mountains of Egocentricity (evening) Behave Yourself! | |
| The Dissonance of the $1 Volunteers | |
| Investigating Memory | |
| Jargon for Dummies | |
| Be Lucky! | |
| This Is Not a Self-help Book | |
| Experiments in Practical Philosophy | |
| The Upside-down Goggles | |
| Fire-walking and Cold Baths | |
| R-pentomino | |
| (a.m.) Proprioception (Scratching Noses Test) (p.m.) Hear the McGurk Effect | |
| (a.m.) Go for a Long Walk on the Much Too Long Coastal Path (p.m.) Make a Bed of Nails | |
| Now Getting Really Rather Dangerous ... | |
| Doodle | |
| Miscellaneous Philosophical Investigations | |
| (a.m.) Molyneux's Problem (p.m.) Mary's Room | |
| Unable To See Change | |
| Cascade Theory | |
| Explain Yourself! | |
| Investigating Un-Reason and Argument | |
| Subliminal Messages | |
| (a.m.) The Power of Prayer (p.m.) Pray for Good Crops | |
| The Horror and the Beauty Or Vice Versa | |
| Strange Things | |
| Manipulating Minds down on the Farm | |
| Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
| Index | |
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