Ecology of the Brain

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life rather as a mediating organ? <p/>Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human body and its environment. <p/>Within this framework the mind is seen not as a product of the brain but as an activity of the living being; an activity which integrates the brain within the everyday functions of the human body. Going further Fuchs reformulates the traditional mind-brain problem presenting it as a dual aspect of the living being: the lived body and the subjective body - the living body and the objective body. The processes of living and experiencing life Fuchs argues are in fact inextricably linked; it is not the brain but the human being who feels thinks and acts. <p/>For students and academics Ecology of the Brain will be of interest to those studying or researching theory of mind social and cultural interaction psychiatry and psychotherapy.