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 The Ghost in the MachineKoestler, Arthur Publisher: Panm Books, London, United KingdomYear Published: 1975 First Published: 1967 Pages: 384pp Dewey: 153.43 Resource Type: Book An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Part One: Order 1. The Poverty of Psychology The Four Pillars of Unwisdom The Rise of Behaviourism The De-Humanisation of Man How to Manipulate Tautologies The Philosophy of Ratomorphism 2. The Chain of Words and the Tree of Language The Chain The Tree 'What Did You Say?' The Postman and the Dog 'What Do You Mean by That?' Rules, Strategies and Feedbacks 3. The Holon The Parable of the Two Watchmakers Enter Janus Social Holons The Basic Polarity 4. Individuals and Dividuals A Note About Diagrams Inorganic Systems The Organism and its Spares The Integrative Powers of Life 5. Triggers and Filters Triggers How to Build a Nest Filters 6. A Memory for Forgetting Abstractive Memory A Speculative View Two Types of Memory Picture-Stip Memory Images and Schemata Learning by Rote 7. The Helmsman Sensory-Motor Routines Feedbacks and Homeostasis Loops within Loops A Holarchy of Holons 8. Habit and Improvisation The Origins of Originality The Mechanisation of Habits One Step at a Time The Challenge of Environment Part Two: Becoming 9. The Strategy of Embryos Docility and Determination The Genetic Keyboard 10. Evolution: Theme and Variations Internal Selection The Case of the Eyeless Fly The Puzzle of Homology Archetypes in Biology The Law of Balance The Doppelgangers The Thirty-Six Plots 11. Evolution CTD: Progress by Initiative Acting Before Reacting Once More Darwin and Lamarck 12. Evolution CTD: Undoing and Re-doing Blind Alleys Escape from Specialisation Draw back to Leap 13. The Glory of Man Forms of Self-Repair Higher Forms of Self-Repair Self-Repair and Self-Realisation Science and the Unconscious Association and Bisociation The AHA Reaction The HAHA Reaction Laughter and Emotion The AH Reaction Art and Emotion The Creative Trinity 14. The Ghost in the Machine The 'Second Law' The Swing of the Pendulum The Stage and the Actors Shifts of Control The Serial View The Flatworm's Ego A Road to Freedom A Sort of Maxim The Open-Ended Hierarchy Part Three: Disorder 15. The Predicament of Man The ThreeDimensions of Emotion The Perils of Aggression The Pathology of Devotion The Ritual of Sacrifice The Observer from Mars The Cheerful Ostrich Integration and Identification The Perils of Identification Hierarchich Awareness Induction and Hypnosis Sweet Caesor's Wounds The Structure of Beliefs The Split The Comforts of Double-Think The Group Mind as a Holon 16. The Three Brains Mistakes in Brain-Making 'A Tumorous Overgrowth' The Physiology of Emotion The Three Brains Emotion and the Ancient Brain 'Schizophysiology' A Taste of the Sun Knowing with One's Viscera Janus Revisited 17. A Unique Species The Unsolicited Gift Looking in Utter Darkness The Peaceful Primate The Harmless Hunter The Curse of Language The Discovery of Death 18. The Age of Climax The Hinge of History Two Curves The New Calendar 'Tampering with Human Nature Prometheus Unhinged Mutating into the Future A Plea to the Phantom Reader Appendix One: General Properties of Open Hierarchical Systems (O.H.S.) Appendix Two: On Not Flogging Dead Horses References Bibliography Acknowledgements Index Topics
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