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Book SynopsisMoving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, Worlding the Brain introduces the concept of “worlding” as a new perspective to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the research on brains and cognition and explores new forms of interdisciplinarity.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Together again, Apart Stephan Besser and Flora Lysen Part 1: Worlded Brains 1 ‘Worlding’ the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria Michael Burke 2 The Mediated Brain A Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic Form Joerg Fingerhut 3 Getting a Kick out of Film Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents Mark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein 4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains An Interdisciplinary Perspective on “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome” Machiel Keestra 5 Beworldered An Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic Being Trijsje Franssen 6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity Experimenting in the Classroom with Autistic Perception Halbe Kuipers Part 2: Narrative Entanglements 7 Personification as Élanification Agency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations Marco Bernini 8 Cognitive Formalism Or, How Presence Machines are Built Karin Kukkonen 9 “Watchman, What of the Night?” Reading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Shannon McBriar 10 The Unfolding Now Narrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen Part 3: Figuring the Brain 11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen Psychedelic Revival in the Acid Western Patricia Pisters 12 Modeling the Model Reflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project Noah Hutton 13 A Monk in the Office Mindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience Ties van der Werff 14 Figuring Thought Between Experience and Abstraction Ksenia Fedorova PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds 15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue Antye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack 16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us? Disruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities Michael Wheeler 17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds Reflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction Shannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania 18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y A Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences Suzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca 19 Thanks for Sharing Local Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing Stephan Besser Index
