Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Menon, Sangeetha (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sinha, Anindya (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sreekantan, B. V. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Philosophy of mind.; Psychiatry.; Cognitive psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book brings together ancient spiritual wisdom and modern science and philosophy to address age-old questions regarding our existence, free will and the nature of conscious awareness. Stuart Hameroff MD Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director, Center for Consciousness Studies The...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Part I: Consciousness, Agency and the Self
• Chapter 2: Conscious Agency and the Preconscious/Unconscious Self
• Chapter 3: Finding the Self and Losing the Ego in the State of Pure Consciousness
• Chapter 4: Converging on the Self: Western Philosophy, Eastern Meditation, Scientific Research
• Chapter 5: The Self as Organiser
• Chapter 6: Reconceptualizing the Separative Self. Chapter 7: Consciousness, Memory and Dreams in Kashyapa Samhita. Chapter 8: Experientially Acquired Knowledge of the Self in a Nonhuman Primate
• Chapter 9: Executive Functions as a Path to Understanding Nonhuman Con-sciousness: Looking under the Light
• Chapter 10: Self, Identity and Culture
• Part II: Self and First-person Phenomenology
• Chapter 11: Consciousness and First Person Phenomenology:  First steps towards an Experiential Phenomenological Writing and Reading (EWR)
• Chapter 12: Self and Neurophenomenology: Gift and Responsibility
• Chapter 13: The Inside-Outside Story of Consciousness: A Phenomenological Exploration
• Chapter 14: Self and Empathy
• Chapter 15: Adapted Self in the Context of Disability: An Ecological, Embodied Perspective
• Chapter 16: Self and Transformative Experiences:  Three Indian Philosophers on Consciousness
• Part III: Boundaries of the Self and Origins of Consciousness
• Chapter 17: Soul, Neurons, Particles, or Mind-at-Large? Exploring the Boundaries of the Self
• Chapter 18: Is the Source of Awareness Present in the Quantum Vacuum?
• Chapter 19: Cosmological Considerations Relevant to the Origin of Consciousness
• Chapter 20: Reality and Consciousness:  Is Quantum Biology the Future of Life Sciences?
• Chapter 21: Human Brain is a Coherent State of the Mind
• Chapter 22: Consciousness, Functional Geometry and Internal Representation
• Chapter 23: Consciousness, Libertarian Free Will and Quantum Randomness.