Understanding consciousness : its function and brain processes

✍ Scribed by Sommerhoff, Gerd Walter Christian

Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Gerd Sommerhoff clarifies the main concepts related to consciousness and proposes a new and strikingly simple biological explanation for this mysterious phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Consciousness explained in simple functional terms. A methodical biological approach and its conclusions --
Awareness of the surrounding world --
Awareness of the self as an entity and of one's thoughts and feelings --
A closer look at the four main propositions --
Questions and answers. The fabric of the underlying brain processes. The RWM --
Acquired expectancies --
Imaginative representations --
Where does consciousness reside in the brain?

✦ Subjects

Consciousness Physiological aspects Neuropsychology SCIENCE Cognitive Science PSYCHOLOGY Psychology Bewustzijn Hersenfuncties Bewusstsein Gehirn Neuropsychologie Kognition Kognitiver Prozess Physiologische Psychologie Electronic books Awareness physiology Brain

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