Balance : : How It Works and What It Means / / Paul Thagard.
Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poised elegance and a tightrope walker’s breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke...
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Thagard, Paul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Balance : How It Works and What It Means / Paul Thagard. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource : 38 figures, 21 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 BALANCED BODIES AND LIVES -- 2 BALANCE AND THE BRAIN -- 3 VERTIGO, NAUSEA, AND FALLS -- 4 CONSCIOUSNESS -- 5 HOW METAPHORS WORK -- 6 NATURE -- 7 MEDICINE -- 8 SOCIETY -- 9 THE ARTS -- 10 PHILOSOPHY -- Appendix BALANCE AND IMBALANCE METAPHORS (56 METAPHORS ARRANGED BY TARGET / SOURCE / CHAPTER) -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poised elegance and a tightrope walker’s breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke balance. People fret over work-life balance or try to eat a balanced diet. The concept crops up from politics—checks and balances, the balance of power, balanced budgets—to science, in which ideas of equilibrium are crucial. Why is balance so fundamental, and how do physical and metaphorical balance shed light on each other?Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. He describes the neural mechanisms that keep bodies balanced and explains why their failures can result in nausea, falls, or vertigo. Thagard connects bodily balance with leading ideas in neuroscience, including the nature of consciousness. He analyzes balance metaphors across science, medicine, economics, the arts, and philosophy, showing why some aid understanding but others are misleading or harmful. Thagard contends that balance is ultimately a matter of making sense of the world. In both literal and metaphorical senses, balance is what enables people to solve the puzzles of life by turning sensory signals or an incongruous comparison into a coherent whole.Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept’s many meanings illuminate the human condition. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) SCIENCE / Cognitive Science. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Comm 2022 English 9783110993950 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Communication 2022 9783110994186 ZDB-23-SEW https://doi.org/10.7312/thag20558 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231556071 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231556071/original |
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