Unity of Mind, Brain and World (eBook, ePUB)

Current Perspectives on a Science of Consciousness
Redaktion: Alfredo Pereira, Jr

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Issues concerning the unity of minds, bodies and the world have often recurred in the history of philosophy and, more recently, in scientific models. Taking into account both the philosophical and scientific knowledge about consciousness, this book presents and discusses some theoretical guiding ideas for the science of consciousness. The authors argue that, within this interdisciplinary context, a consensus appears to be emerging assuming that the conscious mind and the functioning brain are two aspects of a complex system that interacts with the world. How can this concept of reality - one that includes the existence of consciousness - be approached both philosophically and scientifically? The Unity of Mind, Brain and World is the result of a three-year online discussion between the authors who present a diversity of perspectives, tending towards a theoretical synthesis, aimed to contribute to the insertion of this field of knowledge in the academic curriculum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107424197
• Artikelnr.: 52952156

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Alfredo Pereira, Jr and Dietrich Lehmann; 1. Body and world as
phenomenal contents of the brain's reality model Bjorn Merker; 2. Homing in
on the brain mechanisms linked to consciousness: the buffer of the
perception-and-action interface Christine A. Godwin, Adam Gazzaley and
Ezequiel Morsella; 3. A biosemiotic view on consciousness derived from
system hierarchy Ron Cottam and Willy Ranson; 4. A conceptual framework
embedding conscious experience in physical processes Wolfgang Baer; 5.
Emergence in dual-aspect monism Ram L. P. Vimal; 6. Consciousness:
microstates of the brain's electric field as atoms of thought and emotion
Dietrich Lehmann; 7. A foundation for the scientific study of consciousness
Arnold Trehub; 8. The proemial synapse: consciousness-generating
glial-neuronal units Bernhard J. Mitterauer; 9. A cognitive model of
language and conscious processes Leonid Perlovsky; 10. Triple-aspect
monism: a conceptual framework for the science of human consciousness
Alfredo Pereira, Jr.