Ghost in the machine

By:

Koestler, Arthur

Publication details: Hutchinson & Co. London 1967Description: xiv,384,ipISBN:

9781939438348

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.4572 KOE

Contents:

CONTENTS Preface xi PART ONE ORDER I THE POVERTY OF PSYCHOLOGY 3 The Four Pillars of Unwisdom - The Rise of Behaviourism - The De-Humanisation of Man -How to Manipulate Tautologies - The Philosophy of Ratomorphism II.THE CHAIN OF WORDS AND THE TREE OF LANGUAGE 19 The Chain - The Tree - ' What Did You Say?' - The Postman and the Dog - ' What Do You Mean By ThaO' - Rules, Strategies and Feedbacks III. THE HOLON 45 The Parable of the Two Watchmakers - Enter fanus -Social Holons - The Basic Polarity IV.INDIVIDUALS AND DIVIDUALS 59 A Note about Diagrams - Inorganic Systems - The Organism and its Spares - The Integrative Powers of Life V.TRIGGERS AND FILTERS 71 Triggers - How to Build a Nest - Filters VI.A MEMORY- FOR FORGETTING 84 Abstractive Memory - A Speculative View - Two Types of Memory - Picture-Strip Memory - Images and Schemata - Learning by Rote VII.THE HELMSMAN 95 Sensory-Motor Routines - Feedbacks and Homeostasis -Loops within Loops - A Holarchy of Holons VIII. HABIT AND IMPROVISATION 104 The Origins of Originality - The Mechanisation of Habits - One Step at a Time - The Challenge of Environment PART TWO BECOMING IX.THE STRATEGY OF EMBRYOS 115 Docility and Determination - The Genetic Keyboard X.EVOLUTION: THEME AND VARIATIONS 127 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 XI.EVOLUTION CTD: PROGRESS BY INITIATIVE I51 Acting Before Reacting - Once More Darwin and Lamarck XIX. EVOLUTION CTD: UNDOING AND RE-DOING 161 Blind Alleys - Escape from Specialisation - Draw Back to Leap XIII.THE GLORY OF MAN 172 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 XIV.THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE 197 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 XV. THE PREDICAMENT OF MAN 225 The Three Dimensions 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 - Hierarchic Awareness - Induction and Hypnosis - Sweet Caesar's Wounds -The Structure oj Beliefs - The Split - The Comforts of Double-Think - The Group Mind as a Holon XVI.THE THREE BRAINS 267 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 XVII.A UNIQUE SPECIES 297 The Unsolicited Gift - Looking in Utter Darkness -The Peaceful Primate - The Harmless Hunter - The Curse of Language - The Discovery of Death XVIII.THE AGE OF CLIMAX 313 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 I GENERAL PROPERTIES OF OPEN HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS (O.H.S.) 341 APPENDIX II ON NOT FLOGGING DEAD HORSES 349 References 355 Bibliography 359 Acknowledgements 367 Index 369

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CONTENTS
Preface xi
PART ONE
ORDER
I THE POVERTY OF PSYCHOLOGY 3
The Four Pillars of Unwisdom - The Rise of Behaviourism - The De-Humanisation of Man -How to Manipulate Tautologies - The Philosophy of Ratomorphism
II.THE CHAIN OF WORDS AND THE TREE OF LANGUAGE 19
The Chain - The Tree - ' What Did You Say?' - The Postman and the Dog - ' What Do You Mean By ThaO' - Rules, Strategies and Feedbacks
III. THE HOLON 45
The Parable of the Two Watchmakers - Enter fanus -Social Holons - The Basic Polarity
IV.INDIVIDUALS AND DIVIDUALS 59
A Note about Diagrams - Inorganic Systems - The Organism and its Spares - The Integrative Powers of Life
V.TRIGGERS AND FILTERS 71
Triggers - How to Build a Nest - Filters
VI.A MEMORY- FOR FORGETTING 84
Abstractive Memory - A Speculative View - Two Types of Memory - Picture-Strip Memory - Images and Schemata - Learning by Rote
VII.THE HELMSMAN 95
Sensory-Motor Routines - Feedbacks and Homeostasis -Loops within Loops - A Holarchy of Holons
VIII. HABIT AND IMPROVISATION 104
The Origins of Originality - The Mechanisation of Habits - One Step at a Time - The Challenge of Environment
PART TWO
BECOMING
IX.THE STRATEGY OF EMBRYOS 115
Docility and Determination - The Genetic Keyboard
X.EVOLUTION: THEME AND VARIATIONS 127
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
XI.EVOLUTION CTD: PROGRESS BY INITIATIVE I51
Acting Before Reacting - Once More Darwin and Lamarck
XIX. EVOLUTION CTD: UNDOING AND RE-DOING 161
Blind Alleys - Escape from Specialisation - Draw Back to Leap
XIII.THE GLORY OF MAN 172
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
XIV.THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE 197
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
XV. THE PREDICAMENT OF MAN 225
The Three Dimensions 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 - Hierarchic Awareness - Induction and Hypnosis - Sweet Caesar's Wounds -The Structure oj Beliefs - The Split - The Comforts of Double-Think - The Group Mind as a Holon
XVI.THE THREE BRAINS 267
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
XVII.A UNIQUE SPECIES 297
The Unsolicited Gift - Looking in Utter Darkness -The Peaceful Primate - The Harmless Hunter - The Curse of Language - The Discovery of Death
XVIII.THE AGE OF CLIMAX 313
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 I
GENERAL PROPERTIES OF OPEN HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS (O.H.S.) 341
APPENDIX II ON NOT FLOGGING DEAD HORSES 349
References 355
Bibliography 359
Acknowledgements 367
Index 369

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