Brain, self and consciousness [electronic resource] : explaining the conspiracy of experience / Sangeetha Menon.

Brain, self and consciousness [electronic resource] : explaining the conspiracy of experience / Sangeetha Menon.

9788132215813 electronic book
8132215818 electronic book
9788132215806

New Delhi : Springer, 2013.

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-81-322-1581-3 doi

QP411

612.8233

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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Studies in neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality.

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