Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Moreira-Almeida, Alexander (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Santana Santos, Franklin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Σειρά: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy of mind.; Neurobiology.; Quantum physics.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; Quantum Physics.; Personality and Social Psychology.

The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experie...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword; R. Cloninger
• Preface; A. Moreira-Almeida, F. Santana Santos
• Part I. Philosophy and History
• Materialism’s eternal return: recurrent patterns of materialistic explanations of mental phenomena; S. de Freitas Araujo
• The major objections from reductive materialism against belief in the existence of cartesian mind-body dualism; R. Almeder
• Psychic Phenomena and the Mind-Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition; C. S. Alvarado
• Part II – Physics
• No-collapse Physics and Consciousness; C. J. S. Clarke
• The ‘Quantum Soul’ - A Scientific Hypothesis; S. Hameroff and D. Chopra
• Part III - Functional Neuroimaging
• The Neurobiological Correlates of Meditation and Mindfulness; J. Edwards, J. Peres, D. A. Monti, and A. Newberg
• Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional Self-Regulation and Spiritual Experiences; M. Beauregard
• Part IV - Human Experiences as Promising lines of investigation of Mind-brain relationship
• Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Brain Relationship; P. Fenwick
• Death, end of life experiences and their theoretical and clinical implications for the mind-brain relationship; P. Fenwick and F. Santana Santos
• Research on Mediumistic and the Mind-Brain Relationship; A. Moreira-Almeida
• Cases of the Reincarnation Type and the Mind-Brain Relationship; E. Haraldsson
• Conclusion; A. Moreira-Almeida, F. Santana Santos.