UID:
almahu_9949199541802882
Format:
XVI, 216 p. 30 illus., 2 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1994.
ISBN:
9783642492242
Content:
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.
Note:
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 prominent names 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, co-authored by the quantum physicist F. Beck, to explain the 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. Contents: The Problem -- Dualist-Interactionism - My story -- Commentaries on the Mind-Brain Problem -- New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How mental events could influence neural events -- Do mental events cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics?- A unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex -- Evolution of Consciousness -- Evolution of complexity of the brain with the emergence of consciousness -- Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness -- The Self and its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540562900
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642492266
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642492259
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-49224-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49224-2
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