How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN
By: by John C. Eccles
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9783642492266; 9783642492242
Subjects: Physics
Description: In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.
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Table of contents: title: In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominent names in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt, co-authored by the quantum physicist F. Beck, to explain the mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology. Contents: The Problem; title: Dualist-Interactionism; title: My story; title: Commentaries on the Mind-Brain Problem; title: New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How mental events could influence neural events; title: Do mental events cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics?- A unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex; title: Evolution of Consciousness; title: Evolution of complexity of the brain with the emergence of consciousness; title: Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness; title: The Self and its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.