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Brain, Self and Consciousness [electronic resource] : Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience / by Sangeetha Menon.

By: Menon, Sangeetha [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality: 3Publisher: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XI, 214 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9788132215813.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Phenomenology | Psychiatry | Psychology, clinical | Psychology | Neuropsychology | Phenomenology | PsychiatryDDC classification: 612.8 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- 1.Brain and Self: A Preamble.- 2.Beginnings: Biological and Philosophical Accounts of Consciousness.- 3.The Not-so-rigid Brain: Philosophical Riddles and Experiential Ironies.- 4.Body-sense and Self-Sense: Why is Minimalism Insufficient? 5.Boundaries of Self: Displacement, Meaning, and Purpose.- 6.The Feel Factor:Qualia and the Affective Markers of Experience -- 7.Beyond Brain:Final Frontiers of Consciousness.- Bibliography -- Glossary.  .
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. 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. The fascinating discussion that this book presents is: How do the brain and the self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?
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Preface -- 1.Brain and Self: A Preamble.- 2.Beginnings: Biological and Philosophical Accounts of Consciousness.- 3.The Not-so-rigid Brain: Philosophical Riddles and Experiential Ironies.- 4.Body-sense and Self-Sense: Why is Minimalism Insufficient? 5.Boundaries of Self: Displacement, Meaning, and Purpose.- 6.The Feel Factor:Qualia and the Affective Markers of Experience -- 7.Beyond Brain:Final Frontiers of Consciousness.- Bibliography -- Glossary.  .

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. 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. The fascinating discussion that this book presents is: How do the brain and the self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

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