
Life of Brain
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Brief Outline of the Book
- Chapter 1 Consciousness and the Brain
- Word magic
- It's all in the brain
- Some key points
- Chapter 2 Evolution and Your Brain's Goals in Life
- More than one kind of consciousness
- Some key points
- Chapter 3 Sensory Events and Emotions
- The conscious experience of sensory events
- The conscious experience of emotion
- Qualia of pain
- Territorial defence and qualia of fear
- Other 'unpleasant' emotional qualia
- Qualia of pleasure
- Some key points
- Chapter 4 The Construction of an Internal Representation of the Nature of the World 'Out There'
- The workings of memory
- Functioning with our internal representation
- Reality is virtual
- Cognitive Dissonance Reduction
- Some key points
- Chapter 5 Construction of the Self
- The self and the conscious experience of sensory events
- Into the minds of others
- Consciousness and conscience
- Death and the self
- Some key points
- Chapter 6 Language and Thinking
- Self as executive - the control of cognitive operations with the internal model
- Some key points
- Chapter 7 The Development of Consciousness in the Child
- Some key points
- Chapter 8 The Evolution of Consciousness: Some Preliminary Considerations
- Canons and razors
- Some key points
- Chapter 9 The Evolution of Consciousness: From Fish to Apes
- Learning and evolution: acquiring adaptive behaviour through experience
- What can chimps do?
- Some key points
- Chapter 10 From Pre-Human Evolutionary Experiments to Homo Sapiens
- Some key points
- Chapter 11 The Role of Language in Consciousness - Our Doing and Our Possible Undoing
- Language and culture: vulnerability to possible distortions in our internal representations
- Self as executive
- Some key points
- Chapter 12 What Determines the Content of Consciousness?
- Dealing with internal representations linked to strong negative qualia
- A challenge of our evolutionary past
- Talking therapies
- Sleep and dreaming and other 'altered states' of consciousness
- Other altered states of consciousness
- Some key points
- Chapter 13 Some Outstanding Questions in Relation to Our Understanding of Consciousness
- Qualia
- Consciousness as a transition from the material to the spiritual: but how?
- The selective neural representation of consciousness
- What is the role of consciousness in making a choice?
- A perspective from contemporary quantum physics
- Some key points
- Chapter 14 Life of Brain
- Brain function as scripts
- Transcending normal consciousness
- An After-Thought
- Glossary
- Chapter References and Sources
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