Consciousness Demystified
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Consciousness Demystified
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Author : Todd E. Feinberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2025-02-04
Consciousness Demystified written by Todd E. Feinberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-04 with Psychology categories.
Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accounting for the subjective experiences that come from the brain (and life processes). In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt attempt to demystify consciousness—to naturalize it, by explaining that the subjective, experiencing aspects of consciousness are created by natural brain processes that evolved in natural ways. Although subjective experience is unique in nature, they argue, it is not necessarily mysterious. We need not invoke the unknown or unknowable to explain its creation. Feinberg and Mallatt flesh out their theory of neurobiological naturalism (after John Searle's biological naturalism) that recognizes the many features that brains share with other living things, lists the neural features unique to conscious brains, and explains the subjective–objective barrier naturally. They investigate common neural features among the diverse groups of animals that have primary consciousness—the type of consciousness that experiences both sensations received from the world and affects such as emotions. They map the evolutionary development of consciousness and find an uninterrupted progression over time, without inserting any mysterious forces or exotic physics. Finally, bridging the previously unbridgeable, they show how subjective experience, although different from objective observation, can be naturally explained.
Consciousness Explained Scientifically By Substance Dualism
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Author : Sanjeev Kumar Jain
language : en
Publisher: White Falcon Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-01
Consciousness Explained Scientifically By Substance Dualism written by Sanjeev Kumar Jain and has been published by White Falcon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
‘How the consciousness comes into existence?’ is the second top unanswered mystery in science. The top unanswered mystery is ‘what is the universe made of?’ Physicalism or materialism finds itself quite inadequate to explain mental qualities and free will in terms of excitation of neurons and their modular connections. Untangling the mystery of consciousness has been esteemed as the proudest achievement of humankind. Consciousness is left as the last frontier in science whose explanation may perhaps require the conceptualisation of soul and god; otherwise, any divine soul or god is denied in existence, as it does not fit into the known science. This book explains consciousness by conceiving a scientific soul that leads to a plausible explanation for all aspects of consciousness and also leads to God. This book describes and explains consciousness comprehensively. Its offshoot also leads us a possible explanation for near-death-experiences, the origin of life and parapsychology. This book will lead you to know your thyself. It will awaken your spirit of inquiry for such questions as ‘who am I’ and ‘who is God’ while providing some answers also.
Consciousness And Transcendence
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Author : Loomis Mayer
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-27
Consciousness And Transcendence written by Loomis Mayer and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-27 with Philosophy categories.
A central but rarely explored mystery of human existence and subjective consciousness was recognized by Blaise Pascal several centuries ago: Why am I me and not you or anyone else? Science can explain why there is (objectively) a person here, but not why that person is (subjectively) me. This relates to the more widely debated mind/body problem, more currently known as the "Hard Problem of Consciousness." Moving on to human culture, including religion and the arts, this book asks whether these are the direct result of Darwinian evolution or, rather, of the nature of human consciousness. Do the mysteries of our consciousness, of our existence, have a role to play?
The First Minds
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Author : Arthur S. Reber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The First Minds written by Arthur S. Reber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Medical categories.
The Cellular Basis of Consciousness theory places the first appearance of sentience at the emergence of life. It makes the radical, and previously unexplored, claim that prokaryotes, like bacteria, possess a primitive form of consciousness. The implications of the theory for the philosophy of mind, cell-biology, and cognitive neurosciences are explored.
Metaphors Of Conciousness
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Author : Ronald S. Valle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Metaphors Of Conciousness written by Ronald S. Valle and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
As we move into the 1980s, there is an increasing awareness that our civilization is going through a profound cultural transformation. At the heart of this transformation lies what is often called a "paradigm shift"-a dramatic change in the thoughts, perceptions, and values which form a particular vision of reality. The paradigm that is now shifting comprises a large number of ideas and values that have dominated our society for several hundred years; values that have been associated with various streams of Western culture, among them the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, The Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. They include the belief in the scientific method as the only valid approach to knowledge, the split between mind and matter, the view of nature as a mechanical system, the view of life in society as a competitive struggle for survival, and the belief in unlimited material progress to be achieved through economic and technological growth. All these ideas and values are now found to be severely limited and in need of radical revision.
The Fatal Flaw
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Author : JErry Garlough
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-12-13
The Fatal Flaw written by JErry Garlough and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-13 with Religion categories.
Does it not seem strange that these patrons of truth have no actual base for the truth they espouse? Should not these champions of reason offer some plausible foundation for the rational thought they employ? Who can but doubt these adversaries of God who cannot even account for the moral sense by which they denounce Him? What shall we say of masters of science who would deprive science of the undergirding of truth and reason? These are not lords of their own domain, as they might suppose. They are squatters on a land belonging to anothermere pretenders, plagiarizers of values not their own. Like the Prodigal Son, they have taken the resources bequeathed by a loving Father and squandered them in futile meanderings. No one should take these men as seriously as they take themselves. They are not reaching for the far horizon line. Rather they are trapped in their tiny, cramped valley called physicality and have chosen to ignore every other doorway to reality. They are not men reaching for the stars. They are rather like those who wade through muck and mire, stirring up more as they go.
The Antisocial Mind
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Author : Ghahreman Khodadad
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-10-16
The Antisocial Mind written by Ghahreman Khodadad and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-16 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Professor Ghahreman Khodadad illuminates the basis of human behavior by examining the structures that underline antisociality. The book’s central thesis is that antisocial people are so thanks to biological and neurological structures. The principle of structure to function is used to argue that the brain, without us being conscious of it, produces our behaviors. If this claim is correct, then antisocial individuals are not accountable for their antisocial behavior, and they should be treated respectfully instead of being punished. Furthermore, prisons should accordingly be converted into rehabilitation, treatment, and behavioral research centers. This is a book for the general reader who is interested in the basis of human behavior. It should also be of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, geneticists, neurobiologists, and philosophers.
Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 2
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Author : Nithyananda Paramahamsa
language : en
Publisher: eNPublishers
Release Date : 2009
Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 2 written by Nithyananda Paramahamsa and has been published by eNPublishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 3
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Author : Nithyananda Paramahamsa
language : en
Publisher: eNPublishers
Release Date : 2009
Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 3 written by Nithyananda Paramahamsa and has been published by eNPublishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
Beyond Physicalism
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Author : Daniel D. Hutto
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2000-05-15
Beyond Physicalism written by Daniel D. Hutto and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-15 with Psychology categories.
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience. In particular, it argues that the subjectivity of experience cannot be understood in representationalist terms. This is important, for it is because many philosophers fail to come to terms with subjectivity that they are at a loss to provide a convincing solution to the mind-body problem. In this light the metaphysical problem is revealed to be a product of the misguided attempt to incorporate consciousness within an object-based schema, inspired by physicalism. A similar problem arises in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and this gives us further reason to look beyond physicalism, in matters metaphysical. Thus the virtues of absolute idealism are re-examined, as are the wider consequences of adopting its understanding of truth within the philosophy of science. This book complements the arguments and investigations of The Presence of Mind, which it partners. (Series A)