How the self controls its brain /
Eccles, John C. 1903-1997.
How the self controls its brain / John C. Eccles - Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1994 - xvi, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Problem -- Dualist-interactionism: my story -- Recent theoretical studies on the mind-brain problem -- New light on the mind-brain problem: how mental events could influence neural events -- Do mental events cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics? -- Unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex -- Evolution of consciousness -- Evolution of complexity of the brain with the emergence of consciousness -- Quantum aspects of brain activity and the role of consciousness / F. Beck and J.C. Eccles -- Self and its brain: the ultimate synthesis
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 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
3540562907 9783540562900 0387562907 9780387562902
93048957
Mind-brain identity theory
Psychophysiology
Psychophysiology
Consciousness--physiology
B105.M55 / E33 1994
ARCH YNDC 128.2 E17H
1994 B-222 WL 103 / E17ha 1994
How the self controls its brain / John C. Eccles - Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1994 - xvi, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Problem -- Dualist-interactionism: my story -- Recent theoretical studies on the mind-brain problem -- New light on the mind-brain problem: how mental events could influence neural events -- Do mental events cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics? -- Unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex -- Evolution of consciousness -- Evolution of complexity of the brain with the emergence of consciousness -- Quantum aspects of brain activity and the role of consciousness / F. Beck and J.C. Eccles -- Self and its brain: the ultimate synthesis
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 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
3540562907 9783540562900 0387562907 9780387562902
93048957
Mind-brain identity theory
Psychophysiology
Psychophysiology
Consciousness--physiology
B105.M55 / E33 1994
ARCH YNDC 128.2 E17H
1994 B-222 WL 103 / E17ha 1994