Self Comes to Mind
Title | Self Comes to Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Damasio |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2010-11-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0307379493 |
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.
Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality
Title | Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Paul L. Nunez |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199914648 |
Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? This book synthesizes ideas borrowed from philosophy, religion, and science. Topics range widely from brain imagining of thought processes to quantum mechanics and the essential role of information in brains and physical systems.
From Neurons to Self-consciousness
Title | From Neurons to Self-consciousness PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Korzeniewski |
Publisher | Gateway Bookshelf |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781616142278 |
In the end, the author suggests that as more is learned about the working of the brain, philosophical problems that have caused centuries of speculation will simply be resolved by the facts of neurophysiology. --Book Jacket.
How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN
Title | How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Eccles |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 364249224X |
In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.
Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain
Title | Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Ran Hassin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 575 |
Release | 2010-04-12 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 019974162X |
This book presents social, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to the study of self-control, connecting recent work in cognitive and social psychology with recent advances in cognitive and social neuroscience. In bringing together multiple perspectives on self-control dilemmas from internationally renowned researchers in various allied disciplines, this is the first single-reference volume to illustrate the richness, depth, and breadth of the research in the new field of self control.
Self Comes to Mind
Title | Self Comes to Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Damasio |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 030747495X |
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.
The Self and Its Brain
Title | The Self and Its Brain PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Eccles |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2014-04-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1135973547 |
The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of physical events, upon the mind of the recipient of the letter. This is what the authors of this book call the 'interaction of mental and physical events'. We know very little about this interaction; and according to recent philosophical fashions this is explained by the alleged fact that we have brains but no thoughts. The authors of this book stress that they cannot solve the body mind problem; but they hope that they have been able to shed new light on it. Eccles especially with his theory that the brain is a detector and amplifier; a theory that has given rise to important new developments, including new and exciting experiments; and Popper with his highly controversial theory of 'World 3'. They show that certain fashionable solutions which have been offered fail to understand the seriousness of the problems of the emergence of life, or consciousness and of the creativity of our minds. In Part I, Popper discusses the philosophical issue between dualist or even pluralist interaction on the one side, and materialism and parallelism on the other. There is also a historical review of these issues. In Part II, Eccles examines the mind from the neurological standpoint: the structure of the brain and its functional performance under normal as well as abnormal circumstances. The result is a radical and intriguing hypothesis on the interaction between mental events and detailed neurological occurrences in the cerebral cortex. Part III, based on twelve recorded conversations, reflects the exciting exchange between the authors as they attempt to come to terms with their opinions.