| Description |
1 online resource. |
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Studies in neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality |
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Studies in neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality.
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| 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. . |
| Summary |
This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. 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-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussion that this book presents is: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self? |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Brain -- physiology.
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Consciousness.
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Brain.
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MEDICAL / Physiology
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology
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Brain. (OCoLC)fst00837570
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Consciousness. (OCoLC)fst00875441
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Menon, Sangeetha, author. Brain, self and consciousness 9788132215806 (OCoLC)859187386 |
| ISBN |
9788132215813 (electronic bk.) |
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8132215818 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-81-322-1581-3 doi |
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