Knowing, doing, and being : new foundations for consciousness studies / / Chris Clarke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460766503321
• Autore: Clarke Chris
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Exeter : , : Imprint Academic, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-84540-457-2; 1-84540-456-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Disciplina: 126
• Soggetti: Consciousness; Mind and body; Electronic books.
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Introduction; Body matter; 1. Defining Consciousness; 1.1 The idea of consciousness; 1.2 The origins of consciousness studies; 1.3 The development of consciousness studies; 1.4 Words; 1.5 Self-consciousness; 1.6 The seat of consciousness; 1.7 Consciousness and the will; 1.8 Subjective explorations of consciousness; Synopsis; 2. Quantum; 2.1 Interpreting quantum theory; 2.2 Certain uncertainty; 2.3 What is quantum theory about?; 2.4 But what about "The Field"?; 2.5 Measurement and consciousness; 2.6 Entanglement (spooky action at a distance)2.7 Quantum theory today; 2.8 Quantum cosmology; 2.9 Histories: collapse without collapse; 2.10 Selection in quantum cosmology; 2.11 Between knowing and being; Synopsis; 3. The Mind and its Logics: Knowing; 3.1 The reinvention of knowing; 3.2 The start of the separation: the language of duality; 3.3 The rise of the propositional; 3.4 Logic and mind; 3.5 Truth and context; Synopsis; 4. The Reinvention of Quantum Logic; 4.1 Birkhoff-von Neumann logic; 4.2 Context and degrees of truth; 4.3 Superposition; Synopsis; 5. What Does Consciousness Do?; 5.1 Where the (quantum) buck stops 5.2 The operation of ; consciousness; 5.3 Epiphenomenalism and the will; 5.4 Models of the action of consciousness; 5.5 Stapp's model; 5.6 Orchestrated Objective Reduction; 5.7 Assertion; 5.8 The choice of nature; 5.9 What does consciousness do to consciousness?; Synopsis; 6. What Things Are Conscious?; 6.1 Chasing consciousness; 6.2 A propositional view of panpsychism; 6.3 Things; 6.4 The cosmos; Synopsis; 7. A New Programme for Consciousness Research; 7.1 The central aim; 7.2 The pitfalls of the transliminal; 7.3 Models of spirit; 7.4 Praxis; 7.5 Directions for the future7.6 Wholeness; Synopsis; Back matter; References; Also available
• Sommario/riassunto: Between 1965 and 2002 several key lines of research emerged which, taken together, can potentially revolutionise our understanding of the place of consciousness in the universe. Two of these are crucial: first, the analyses of human mental processes by Barnard, and independently by McGilchrist, revealing two separate elements, one rational and one based on relationships; and, second, research by several workers linking quantum theory to consciousness in much greater detail then hitherto. B...