Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; R. Cloninger
- Preface; A. Moreira-Almeida, F. Santana Santos
- Part I. Philosophy and History
- Materialism’s eternal return: recurrent patterns of materialistic explanations of mental phenomena; S. de Freitas Araujo
- The major objections from reductive materialism against belief in the existence of cartesian mind-body dualism; R. Almeder
- Psychic Phenomena and the Mind-Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition; C. S. Alvarado
- Part II – Physics
- No-collapse Physics and Consciousness; C. J. S. Clarke
- The ‘Quantum Soul’ - A Scientific Hypothesis; S. Hameroff and D. Chopra
- Part III - Functional Neuroimaging
- The Neurobiological Correlates of Meditation and Mindfulness; J. Edwards, J. Peres, D. A. Monti, and A. Newberg
- Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional Self-Regulation and Spiritual Experiences; M. Beauregard
- Part IV - Human Experiences as Promising lines of investigation of Mind-brain relationship
- Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Brain Relationship; P. Fenwick
- Death, end of life experiences and their theoretical and clinical implications for the mind-brain relationship; P. Fenwick and F. Santana Santos
- Research on Mediumistic and the Mind-Brain Relationship; A. Moreira-Almeida
- Cases of the Reincarnation Type and the Mind-Brain Relationship; E. Haraldsson
- Conclusion; A. Moreira-Almeida, F. Santana Santos