The unity of mind, brain, and world : current perspectives on a science of consciousness / edited by Alfredo Pereira Jr. and Dietrich Lehmann.

Issues concerning the unity of minds, bodies and the world have often recurred in the history of philosophy and, more recently, in scientific models. Taking into account both the philosophical and scientific knowledge about consciousness, this book presents and discusses some theoretical guiding ide...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Pereira, Alfredo, Jr (Editor), Lehmann, Dietrich (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Body and world as phenomenal contents of the brain's reality model / Bjorn Merker
  • Homing in on the brain mechanisms linked to consciousness : the buffer of the perception-and-action interface / Christine A. Godwin, Adam Gazzaley, Ezequiel Morsella
  • A biosemiotic view on consciousness derived from system hierarchy / Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
  • A conceptual framework embedding conscious experience in physical processes / Wolfgang Baer
  • Emergence in dual-aspect monism / Ram L.P. Vimal
  • Consciousness : microstates of the brain's electric field as atoms of thought and emotion / Dietrich Lehmann
  • A foundation for the scientific study of consciousness / Arnold Trehub
  • The proemial synapse : consciousness-generating glial-neuronal units / Bernhard J. Mitterauer
  • A cognitive model of language and conscious processes / Leonid Perlovsky
  • Triple-aspect monism : a conceptual framework for the science of human consciousness / Alfredo Pereira Jr.