Brain, Self and Consciousness Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience /

• Main Author: Menon, Sangeetha (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 3
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.  .