Collective Consciousness and its Discontents Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States /

• Main Authors: Wallace, Rodrick (Author), Fullilove, Mindy T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health informatics.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Informatics.

This book expands a recent mathematical treatment of the Baars model of individual consciousness to an institutional venue in which multiple ‘Global Workspaces’ cooperate, communicate, and compete. The result is an expansion of Dretske’s necessary conditions communications theory approach to high le...

Table of Contents:

• Consciousness And Distributed Cognition
• Formal Theory
• Pathologies Of Collective Consciousness
• Disease And Collective Consciousness
• The Failure Of Aids Control And Treatment In The Us
• Final Remarks
• Mathematical appendix
• References.