How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN
John C. Eccles(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 17. January 1994
Book
Hardback
XVI, 216 pages
978-3-540-56290-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2
28 s/w Abbildungen, 2 farbige Abbildungen
28 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography
Dimensions
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 13.3 cm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-56290-0 (9783540562900)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-49224-2
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Content
1 The Problem.- 2 Dualist-interactionism-My Story.- 3 Recent Theoretical Studies on the Mind-Brain Problem.- 4 New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events.- 5 Do Mental Events Cause Neural Events Analogously to the Probability Fields of Quantum Mechanics?.- 6 A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex.- 7 The Evolution of Consciousness.- 8 The Evolution of Complexity of the Brain with the Emergence of Consciousness.- 9 Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness (F. Beck and J. C. Eccles).- 10 The Self and Its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.