Brain, Self and Consciousness Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Menon, Sangeetha (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 3
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Phenomenology.; Psychiatry.; Neuropsychology.

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciou...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1.Brain and Self: A Preamble.- 2.Beginnings: Biological and Philosophical Accounts of Consciousness.- 3.The Not-so-rigid Brain: Philosophical Riddles and Experiential Ironies.- 4.Body-sense and Self-Sense: Why is Minimalism Insufficient? 5.Boundaries of Self: Displacement, Meaning, and Purpose.- 6.The Feel Factor:Qualia and the Affective Markers of Experience
• 7.Beyond Brain:Final Frontiers of Consciousness.- Bibliography
• Glossary.  .