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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298074503321

Autore

Menon Sangeetha

Titolo

Brain, Self and Consciousness [[electronic resource] ] : Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience / / by Sangeetha Menon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Springer India : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

81-322-1581-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, , 2211-8918

Disciplina

142.7

154.4

Soggetti

Neuropsychology

Phenomenology 

Psychiatry

Phenomenology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1.Brain and Self: A Preamble.- 2.Beginnings: Biological and Philosophical Accounts of Consciousness.- 3.The Not-so-rigid Brain: Philosophical Riddles and Experiential Ironies.- 4.Body-sense and Self-Sense: Why is Minimalism Insufficient? 5.Boundaries of Self: Displacement, Meaning, and Purpose.- 6.The Feel Factor:Qualia and the Affective Markers of Experience -- 7.Beyond Brain:Final Frontiers of Consciousness.- Bibliography -- Glossary.  .

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. The fascinating discussion that this book presents is: How do the brain and the self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?