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BIOPHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: A FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH - Hardcover

 
9789814644259: BIOPHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: A FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814644250 ISBN 13: 9789814644259
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2016

Synopsis

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.This volume unites the crème de la crème of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how consciousness can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.

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The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.

This volume unites the cr me de la cr me of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how what John Searle calls a "conscious field" can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.

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Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814644250
ISBN 13 
9789814644259
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
664
Editor
Poznanski The Rockefeller University USA & Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia Roman R, Tuszynski University Of Alberta Canada Jack A, Feinberg Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai USA & Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center USA Todd E