The conscious mind / Zoltan L. Torey.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

xii, 191 pages ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background to the brain: the identity of consciousness -- Neoteny: the breaking of the hominid impasse -- Nuts and bolts to build a language -- Cognitive bootstrapping: the epigenesis of language -- A device to move mountains: dual output, single focus -- Language: the Trojan horse of negative entropy -- What is this thing called mind? -- The alchemy of self-deception: introspection at work -- Functional autonomy: the triumph of evolutionary bootstrapping -- About the self: fiction and fact -- Unfinished business: skeletons in the cupboard -- At the edge of comprehension.