TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,Robert Alan
TI  - A skeptic's guide to the mind: what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves 
SN  - 1250001854 (hardback)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Brain
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Neurosciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index
N2  - "What if what we consider to be reason-based, deliberative judgment is really the product of involuntary mental sensations? In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Dr. Robert Burton takes a close look at the key false assumptions that permeate the field of cognitive science and offers a new way of exploring how our brains generate thought. The essential paradox that drives this cutting-edge theory is that the same mechanisms that prevent understanding the mind also generate a sense that we can attain such understanding. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Burton presents his theory of the 'mental sensory system'--a system that generates the main components of consciousness: a sense of self, a sense of choice and free will, and how we make moral decisions. Bringing together anecdotes, practical thought experiments, and cutting-edge neuroscience to show how these various strands of thought and mental sensations interact, A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind offers a powerful tool for knowing what we can and cannot say about the mind; how to discern good from bad cognitive science studies; and most importantly, how to consider the moral implications of these studies. This is a pathbreaking model for considering the interaction between conscious and unconscious thought"--
ER  -