Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate -- to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example, will describe in detail a conference he attended over the weekend when in fact he has not left the hospital. Normal people, too, sometimes have a tendency to confabulate; rather than admitting "I don't know," some people will make up an answer or an explanation and express it with complete conviction. In Brain Fiction, William Hirstein examines confabulation and argues that its causes are not merely technical issues in neurology or cognitive science but deeply revealing about the structure of the human intellect.Hirstein describes confabulation as the failure of a normal checking or censoring process in the brain -- the failure to recognize that a false answer is fantasy, not reality. Thus, he argues, the creative ability to construct a plausible-sounding response and some ability to check that response are separate in the human brain. Hirstein sees the dialectic between the creative and checking processes -- "the inner dialogue" -- as an important part of our mental life. In constructing a theory of confabulation, Hirstein integrates perspectives from different fields, including philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology to achieve a natural mix of conceptual issues usually treated by philosophers with purely empirical issues; information about the distribution of certain blood vessels in the prefrontal lobes of the brain, for example, or the behavior of split-brain patients can shed light on the classic questions of philosophy of mind, including questions about the function of consciousness. This first book-length study of confabulation breaks ground in both philosophy and cognitive science.
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评分这本书真是让人欲罢不能,简直是文字的盛宴。从翻开第一页开始,就被作者构建的世界深深吸引住了。那种细腻入微的笔触,仿佛能让你触摸到角色的灵魂深处。情节推进得张弛有度,高潮迭起却又恰到好处,绝不会让人觉得拖沓或仓促。我尤其欣赏作者对于人物心理描写的功力,那种复杂纠结的情绪,被刻画得淋漓尽致,让人在阅读过程中不断地反思自我。书中的一些哲理性的思考,也潜移默化地影响着我的认知,读完之后感觉自己的精神世界得到了极大的拓展。这是一本值得反复品读、细细咀嚼的佳作,每一次重读,可能都会有新的感悟。那种意犹未尽的感觉,是衡量一本好书的绝佳标准。
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