How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

✍ Scribed by Sir John C. Eccles (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 203
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
The Problem....Pages 1-11
Dualist-interactionism—My Story....Pages 13-26
Recent Theoretical Studies on the Mind-Brain Problem....Pages 27-53
New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events....Pages 55-69
Do Mental Events Cause Neural Events Analogously to the Probability Fields of Quantum Mechanics?....Pages 71-86
A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex....Pages 87-112
The Evolution of Consciousness....Pages 113-124
The Evolution of Complexity of the Brain with the Emergence of Consciousness....Pages 125-143
Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness....Pages 145-165
The Self and Its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis....Pages 167-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-198

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics

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