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Science And Sanity
''Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics'' is a 1933 philosophy book written by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950). Published by the Institute of General Semantics,Review by Bobby Matherne: https://southerncrossreview.org/26/matherne-bookreview.htm it remains in print, the sixth edition released in 2023. It's considered Korzybski's magnum opus. It was by this book influence that general semantics became known to the public. In some countries, the book is already in the public domain. Background Korzybski presented his most famous epistemological argument in ''Science and Sanity'': Humans' knowledge of the world is limited by both the human nervous system and the languages they have developed, and thus no human can have direct access to reality, given that the most they can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is " The map is not the territory": he argued that most people confuse rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brain And Neuroscience Advances
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for special senses such as vision, hearing, and olfaction. Being the most specialized organ, it is responsible for receiving information from the sensory nervous system, processing that information (thought, cognition, and intelligence) and the coordination of motor control (muscle activity and endocrine system). While invertebrate brains arise from paired segmental ganglia (each of which is only responsible for the respective body segment) of the ventral nerve cord, vertebrate brains develop axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a vesicular enlargement at the rostral end of the neural tube, with centralized control over all body segments. All vertebrate brains can be embryonically divided into three parts: the forebrain (prosencephalon, subdivided i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
