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Brain, self and consciousness: explaining the conspiracy of experience

By Menon , Sangeetha

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2014
ISBN
9788132215806, 9788132215813, 813221580X, 8132215818
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2115360 bytes)
Series
Studies in neuroscience consciousness and spirituality
Pages
\218
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Neuropsychology.;Phenomenology.;Psychiatry.;Psycho

Description

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussion that this book presents is: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

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