Actions for The interbrain : embodied connections versus common knowledge

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The interbrain : embodied connections versus common knowledge / Digby Tantam

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Tantam, Digby
Published
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (389 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Thought experiments -- Connectedness and mirroring -- Deliberate and involuntary mirroring -- Real and not-so-real connections -- Philosophical intuitions about connectedness -- Nonverbal communication and connectedness -- Types of nonverbal communication -- Reflective or top-down nonverbal communication -- Top-down theories of nonverbal communication -- Communication central: the orbitofrontal cortex -- What is theory of mind? -- Cognitive empathy -- mind of one's own -- Theory of mind and self-awareness -- Bottom-up nonverbal communication -- Why non-awareness leads to denial that bottom-up nonverbal communication occurs -- Bottom-up nonverbal communication that is non-reciprocal -- Pain -- Humean sympathy, identification, attachment, and attribution -- insula and emotional flavour -- Bottom-up nonverbal connections that are apparently innate -- Bottom-up nonverbal connections based on similarity or complementarity: the interbrain -- Establishing interbrain connections -- Gaze reflexes: orientating to the eyes and gaze following -- Facial and other imitation -- mirror neuron paradigm -- Emotional contagion -- Shared attention -- What makes the interbrain? -- Notes -- Introjection -- Infancy -- Altruism -- Giving over to the other -- Crowds -- Deindividuation -- Organismic analogies -- People enjoy crowd participation -- Swarms and mobs -- Equality -- Equality in spontaneous groups -- Other animal swarms and interbrain connections -- Are swarm-like crowds stupid? -- Cohesion, crowding, and swarming -- In- and out-groups -- In- and out-group mobs -- Religion and crowds -- Two types of leader -- Families and familiarity -- Summary so far -- Why this chapter is about the brain, and not about, say, extended cognition -- Notes -- Summary so far -- Inner conflict -- When does the opposition between the interbrain and the theory of mind begin? -- Three examples of the impact of both the interbrain and the theory of mind on social interaction -- Play -- Titus Livius -- Sympathy or law? -- trolley problem -- Kinship -- original theory-of-mind studies -- Narrative -- Deceit -- Further problems with 'mind' -- Other people -- Inequality -- Gramarye -- Notes -- When narrative truth comes into play -- Minds and 'theories of mind' -- Communicating information -- Perspective taking -- Connecting feelings -- Emotional connection through narrative -- How narratives induce emotions -- example of embarrassment or 'cringe' -- professor of signs -- Notes -- Cooperation and coordination -- madness of crowds -- How does knowledge become 'common'? -- Gaining common knowledge -- Common knowledge and the interbrain -- question arises: in such a world how can people afford to act cooperatively? -- public persona -- Notes -- Submission -- Obedience -- saving idea -- connection between the leader and the group -- How does a leader gain a more permanent connection with others who become followers? -- Emotions of obedience -- Common knowledge -- Disconnection -- Disconnecting -- Disconnecting through negativity -- Hegemony and hate -- Morality, demons, and beasts -- Dehumanization -- In- and out-groups -- In-groups -- Justice, obedience, honour, and duty -- example from Lodz -- Notes -- War -- What leads to war? -- moral importance of war -- Terror management theory -- What leads to terror? -- How does war end? -- interbrain in war -- What effect does war have? -- Does the contrast between types of connections provide any guidance about conducting peace? -- connections of terrorists -- Moral panic: impersonal and disembodied -- Moral panic or moral terror -- lone terrorist -- democratization of terror -- Another story about monsters -- psychopath -- Who is a psychopath? -- Dangerous, severely abnormal personality disorder -- Myths about psychopathy and insights about connection -- othering manoeuvre -- If psychopaths existed, what would they be like? -- Why do we connect to psychopathy? -- Internet connections -- Final conclusions -- Notes.
Summary
Arguing that our brains are wirelessly connected though non-verbal communication, Digby Tantam presents research to show how our brains are linked in unexpected ways and the implications this has for our understanding of criminal behaviour, autism spectrum disorders, relationships and more.
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ISBN
9780857008565 (electronic bk.)
0857008560 (electronic bk.)
9781849054768 (hardcover)
1849054762 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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