《回归感觉》简介

武夷山

     Coming to Our Senses，权且译为《回归感觉》，是认知科学家、美国加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校心理学系访问学者Viki McCabe的著作，牛津大学出版社2014年3月出版。她认为，关于知觉、认知与信息的现有理论无法解释我们认识世界的过程。她利用科学的研究和真实的故事表明，我们面临的生态灾难、政治瘫痪和经济失败都源自人的一种倾向：看重认知性过程与产品，轻视我们利用自己的感知系统所获得的信息。她还认为，复杂的世界是无法用理论和言词来描述的。每一种系统都以分形般的几何构形揭示自身，这些构型是从催生了系统并决定着系统功能的结构化组织中涌现出来的，并成为系统的映射。她的关键想法是：形式不仅服从于功能，而且形式是作为信息而倍增的。如果我们弃置那些理论，而专注于世界所呈现的信息，我们的感知就会阻止敌意性的心智俘获，与现实重新联系起来，使我们重新回归自己的感觉。

   该书目录如下。

Table of Contents 目录

INTRODUCTION 导言

PART 1: THE NATURE OF INFORMATION 第一部分：信息的性质

CHAPTER 1 THE STRUCTURE OF REALITY，第一章现实之结构

Theory overrides structure and promotes disaster: TheVincennes incident

理论“践踏”结构，诱发事故：文森斯号巡洋舰击落伊朗客机事件
The Origins and Nature of Structural Information，结构信息之起源与性质
Saved by Structural Information，被结构信息所拯救
Our Complex Perceptual Systems: J.J. Gibson's Views

我们复杂的感知系统：吉布森的看法
An Alternate View: Signal Detection Theory，另类视角：信号检测理论
Complexity and Structural Information，复杂性与结构信息
Seeing What We Believe: How the Mind Hijacks the Senses

相信什么就看到什么：大脑如何劫持了感官
The Source of Common Sense: Our Senses，常识的来源：我们的感觉

CHAPTER 2 PERCEIVING STRUCTURE，第二章感知结构
Recognition and Structural Information
Altering Facial Proportions Alters Structure and Disrupts Recognition
Care-giving by Configuration
Facial Structure
Face Blindness and Super-Recognizers
What's Wrong with Eyewitness Testimony: Features vs. Structure
Why Features Fail as Evidence
Our Atomistic Worldview Leads Us Astray

CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS 第三章结构与动力学

Catching a Child Molester
Dynamic Spatial Information
Oscillating Figure Eight Reveals Identity
Do We Have Memories of Structural Information?
Our Brain-World Interface
Navigation Grids and Space Cells
Walking in Other People's Moccasins
Reciprocating Structures: Experiencing Empathy

CHAPTER 4 RESTRUCTURING REALITY 第四章重构现实

Clouded Vision: No-Outlet Levees Destroy Delta Ecosystem
Controlling Nature: Eliminating Natural Structure--Tributaries and Meanders
The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts
Restoring a Meander
Structural Pattern Generators and Natural Structures
Branching
Spirals
Meanders
Hexagons

CHAPTER 5 REALITY'S GEOMETRY 第五章现实之几何

The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake: The Real WorldReinstates Itself
Bacteria's Quorum Sensing
Immune Cells Communicate Using Structural Configurations
Volatile Compounds Send Aromatic Messages
Animal Environment Reciprocities
Frogs
Crows
Geese
Mating, Foraging, Escaping
Migrating Through Space
Human-Environmental Affordances

Acquiring and Representing Structural Information
Benoit Mandelbrot's Fractals

Our Fractal Brain

CHAPTER 6 EXPERTS' EXPERTS 第六章专家之专家

Repetitions without Repetition
Minimally Essential Spatial Information
Experts' Experts Rely on Structural Information
Diagnosing Injuries: Reading the Dynamics of Movement Deviations
Curing Pain in the Brain: How the Brain Can Restructure Reality
Diagnosing cancer: Pathology and Structural Information
Condensing the Structure of Reality: The Japanese Garden
Reading the Seascape: Sea Gypsies Survive a Tsunami
Translating the Structure of Reality into Words

PART TWO: MANUFACTURED INFORMATION AND THE BIASED BRAIN

第二部分：人为生产的信息和带偏见的头脑

CHAPTER 7 MIND OVER MATTER: Theories and Other MentalFallout

第七章精神压倒物质：理论及其他心智影响

Flawed Theory Disfigures Cancer Patients
Where do Theories Come from?
Theories and the Brain
Hijacking the Interpreter
Unacknowledged Theories that Threaten our Survival
How to Judge a Theory

CHAPTER 8 ARE SCIENTIFIC THEORIES DIFFERENT?

第八章科学理论有什么特殊吗？

Trial by Theory: Galileo and the Holy Office of theInquisition
Alfred Wegener and the Theory of Continental Drift
Barbara McClintock and the Theory of Jumping Genes
How Science can Progress by Extending Our Eyes
Theories and Complexity

CHAPTER 9 ARE ECONOMIC THEORIES DIFFERENT?

第九章经济学理论有什么特殊吗？

Proctor and Gamble and Gibson Greeting Cards v. BankersTrust
Replacing Reality: The Evolution of the Derivative
Seeing the Structural Information that Specifies the Market
The Sad Saga of Brooksley Born
An Alternative Theory of the Economy

CHAPTER 10 COMPLEXITY, COMPONENTS, AND MENTAL CONCEPTS

第十章复杂性、组元与心理概念

Death by Financial Concept
Viral Components and Complex Systems
Agribusiness: Turning Sustainable Complexity into Unsustainable Simplicity
A Sustainable Complex System: The Family Farm
From Complexity to Simplicity: From Whole Grains to Empty Calories
From Nutritional Simplicity To Obesity

EPILOGUE: A Cautionary Tale 跋：警世寓言