TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eccles,John C.
TI  - How the self controls its brain
SN  - 3540562907
AV  - B105.M55 E33 1994
U1  - ARCH YNDC 128.2 E17H  20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Mind-brain identity theory
KW  - Psychophysiology
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - physiology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -