The Escape of the Mind by Howard Rachlin
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Overview: * Proposes a unique philosophical approach, teleological behaviorism, that places the mind wholly outside of the body, contradicting what our introspections tell us "must" be the case.
* Contends that that the human mind was conceived by ancient Greek philosophers as an ecological niche for complex human behavior.
* Emphasizes the mind as embodying behavioral patterns extended in time.
* Asserts that the mental context of a given behavioral finding is not to be found by opening up the brain or through MRI imaging, but rather in the past and future patterns of overt behavior of which the behavioral finding is a part.
The Escape of the Mind is part of a current movement in psychology and philosophy of mind that calls into question what is perhaps our most basic, most cherished, and universally accepted belief—that our minds are inside of our bodies. Howard Rachlin adopts the counterintuitive position that our minds, conscious and unconscious, lie not where our firmest (yet unsupported) introspections tell us they are, but in how we actually behave over the long run. Perhaps paradoxically, the book argues that our introspections, no matter how positive we are about them, tell us absolutely nothing about our minds. The name of the present version of this approach to the mind is "teleological behaviorism."
Genre: Non-Fiction: General
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