Brown, Jason W. Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subjectivity. London and Philadelphia: Whurr Publishers, 2000.
Abstract
This collection of essays extends the
microgenetic theory of the mind/brain state to basic problems in
process psychology and philosophy of mind. The author's microtemporal
model of brain activity and psychological events, which was originally
based on clinical studies of patients with focal brain damage, is
extended here to such topics as the concept of the moment in Buddhist
philosophy, conscious and unconscious thought, the nature of the self,
subjective time, and aesthetic perception. The author develops a highly
original psychology of mental process, actually a 'cognitive
metaphysics', which is grounded in brain physiology and clinical
psychopathology. A central theme of the paper is that the natural
categories that arise in the extensibility of temporal data are
continuous with conceptual structures in the human mind.