The idea of consciousness
Subtitle: synapses and the mind
By: Max R. Bennett ; illustrations by Gillian Bennett.
Contributors: Bennett, Gillian.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Neuropsychiatry.; Consciousness.; Brain.; Synapses.; Neural transmission.; Mind and body.
Other titles: Synapses and the mind
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 An Introduction to Consciousness and the Brain; title: 1.1 Erwin Schrodinger' s What is Life?; title: 1.2 The problem of consciousness approached through vision; title: 1.3 The origin of holistic experiences in consciousness; title: 1.4 The loss of specific elements of consciousness through; title: disease and stroke; title: 1.5 Neuronal growth factors for the regeneration of nerve; title: connections; title: 1.6 The restoration of memory processes by neural transplants; title: into the brain; title: 1.7 The idea of consciousness; title: 1.8 References; title: Chapter2 Syntax, Semantics and Qualia in Consciousness; title: 2.1. The idea of brain and mind: Descartes and Kant; title: 2.2 The neuronal basis of syntax: Allan Turing and David Marr; title: 2.3 The neuronal basis of semantics: Wittgenstein and Searle; title: 2.4 The neuronal basis of qualia: Edelman and Dennett; title: 2.5 References; title: Chapter3 The Holistic Nature of Consciousness; title: 3.1 Neuronal groups and 40 Hz oscillations of neuronal; title: activity; title: 3.2 Neuronal groups participate in the solution of the binding; title: problem in the visual cortex; title: 3.3 The dynamic coupling of neuronal groups; title: 3.4 Paying attention; title: 3.5 Consciousness as a global map of neuronal groups; title: 3.6 References; title: Chapter 4 The Consciousness of Muscular Effort and; title: Movement; title: 4.1 The simplest nervous system; title: 4.2 Humphrey's concept of the evolution of the sentient loop; title: 4.3 The modification of sensory signals before they reach; title: consciousness; title: 4.4 Collateral effects can be used to generate sensations; title: 4.5 The consciousness of time; title: 4.6 Brain activity in the absence of behavior; title: 4.7 The evolution of the collateral effect; title: 4.8 Consciousness as a consequence of the sentient loop; title: 4.9 References; title: 4.10 Further reading; title: Chapter5 The Distortion of Consciousness; title: 5.1 Introduction; title: 5.2 Imaging brain functions related to consciousness; title: 5.3 Problems with interpreting brain images related to; title: consciousness; title: 5.4 Brain images during the distortions of consciousness that; title: accompany schizophrenia; title: 5.5 The dopaminergic hypothesis for the distortions of; title: consciousness that accompany schizophrenia; title: 5.6 Dopamine receptor molecules and the alleviation of the; title: distortions of consciousness; title: 5.7 The site of the lesion in the schizophrenic brain and the; title: distortion of consciousness; title: 5.8 What does schizophrenia reveal about the origins of; title: consciousness?; title: 5.9 References; title: Chapter6 The Evolution of Consciousness; title: 6.1 Introduction; title: 6.2 Evolution of the brain; title: 6.3 The site of visual consciousness in the primate brain:; title: blindsight; title: 6.4 At what point during evolution of the brain do synchronized; title: 40 Hz oscillations first appear in the telencephalon?; title: 6.5 At what point during evolution of the brain do PET and fMRI; title: studies indicate psychophysical parallels with Homo sapiens?; title: 6.6 Is there visual consciousness in amphibia?; title: 6.7 Evolution of the emotional centers of the brain; title: 6.8 References; title: Chapter7 Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics; title: 7.1 Quantum mechanics; title: 7.2 Bohr's interpretation of Schrodinger's wave equation; title: 7.3 Bohm's interpretation of Schrodinger's wave equation; title: 7.4 Gell-Mann and Zurek' s interpretation of Schrodinger's; title: wave equation; title: 7.5 The concept of non-local reality in quantum mechanics; title: 7.6 Ideas concerning the operation of non-local reality in the; title: brain: the origins of consciousness?; title: 7.7 References; title: An Epilogue: Blade Runner or Einstein?; title: Source of Illustrations; title: Index.