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This volume is an exploration of human understanding, from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, biology and theology. The six contributors are among the most internationally eminent in their fields. Though scholarly, the writing is non-technical. No background in psychology, philosophy or theology is presumed. No other interdisciplinary work has undertaken to explore the nature of human...

The magic lamp of science has been rubbed and the genie has exchanged the old view of mind inherited from the philosophers for a new one: in the new view, thought is largely unconscious, embodied, and metaphorical. Where in the old view, mind was symbolic, modelled by the algorithmic manipulation of abstract symbols, as in a digital computer or a logical deduction, thought in the new view is biological and neural, not a matter of symbols. Where, in the old view, thought was disembodied and abstract,

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