Imagination and the Meaningful Brain
Modell, Arnold H.
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In "Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, " psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not...