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Being and becoming : a guide to act in the theatre of existence / / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Vera Nenadovic
| Being and becoming : a guide to act in the theatre of existence / / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Vera Nenadovic |
| Autore | Perez Velazquez Jose Luis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Disciplina | 612.801 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Jo (Psicologia) Identitat (Psicologia) Neuropsicologia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-78264-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Why You Should Read This Book -- Part I: The Neuroscience Perspective - Where Is My Self? -- Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Self -- 1.1 Perception Is Everything -- 1.2 The Usefulness of Brains -- 1.3 Cognition Without a Brain: The "Thinking" Slime Mould -- 1.4 A Brief Tour Through the Brain, for the Non-specialist Tourist -- 1.5 The Cognitive Powers of a Worm and its Extremely Primeval Selfhood -- 1.6 On the Essence of Selves: Properties All We Perceive -- 1.7 The Personal Identity of Animals: A Self Through the Looking Glass -- 1.7.1 The Mirror Test -- 1.8 Of Animals and Babies: The Development of Self-Awareness in Humans -- 1.8.1 The Body in the Brain -- 1.8.2 Our Starting Consciousness in Our Early Times -- Chapter 2: The Origins and the Fallacy of a Central Commander in the Brain: The Emergence of Agency and the Demise of the Concept of Free Will -- 2.1 Incorrect Body Perceptions: Illusions of Ownership and Out-of-Body Experiences -- 2.1.1 The Mind Out of the Body: Out-of-Body Experiences -- 2.1.2 A Mini Science Project: Elucidating the Intriguing Phenomenon of OBEs in Blind Individuals -- 2.2 Free Will, or What Is Free in that Will? -- 2.2.1 The Making of Choices: In Search of the Last Ventriloquist -- 2.2.2 The Will in Epileptic Patients: What Seizures Reveal About Volition -- Postscript to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Strange World of Split-brain Patients: In Search of the Interpreter of Our Actions -- 3.1 Closing the Coffin of Free Will -- 3.1.1 A Cry for Freedom -- Chapter 4: Dissociative Identity Disorders. Are Multiple Personalities Ever Lonely, or Can a Psychiatrist Charge Twice a Person with Dual Personality? -- Chapter 5: The Enduring Self, or How to Annihilate the Self -- Chapter 6: A Recipe for High Cognition: Are Consciousness and Self-awareness a Matter of Numbers?.
Chapter 7: Demystifying Consciousness -- 7.1 On Emergence -- 7.1.1 A Criticism and a Reply -- 7.2 Perception is Personal: The Essence and Source of the Mystery -- 7.2.1 Postscript to Part I -- Part II: The Biophysics Perspective - What Is My Life? -- Chapter 8: A Recipe for Interesting Things to Occur -- 8.1 Preparing to Cook Life -- 8.1.1 Global Regularity From Local Mess: The Beginnings of the Living -- 8.1.2 Noisy Surroundings: When Noise Really Makes Sense -- 8.1.3 A Fluctuating World -- Chapter 9: Let There Be Life -- 9.1 Molecular Crowding: A Tale of the Most Probable -- 9.2 Biological Compartmentalisation: Good Borders Make Good Neighbours -- 9.3 Clarifying the Entropic Fallacy -- 9.3.1 And Furthermore, Clarifying Other Closest Relatives of Entropy -- 9.4 And Yet Another Fallacy: (Wo)Man and Machine -- 9.5 The Dance of the Genes -- Chapters 10: The Special Ones -- Chapter 11: The Enduring Life -- Chapter 12: And Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing -- 12.1 Postscript to Part II -- Part III: The Philosophical Perspective - How Do I Experience Reality? -- Chapter 13: The Self and Consciousness Throughout History -- Chapter 14: The Power of Contemplation: Explorations on the Self and Consciousness in the Buddhist Tradition -- Chapter 15: Shrinking the Self -- Chapter 16: Naturalising Death: The Ultimate Becoming -- Chapter 17: Law and Neuroscience: The Impact of Brain Research on Criminal Justice -- 17.1 Postscript to Part III -- Chapter 18: Final Conclusions -- References -- Index. |
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Perez Velazquez Jose Luis
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The Mind-Brain Continuum [[electronic resource] ] : Psychoneurointracrinology / / by Susan Gordon
| The Mind-Brain Continuum [[electronic resource] ] : Psychoneurointracrinology / / by Susan Gordon |
| Autore | Gordon Susan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Disciplina | 128.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive psychology
Psychology Philosophy of mind Cognitive Psychology Behavioral Sciences and Psychology Philosophy of Mind Identitat (Psicologia) Jo (Psicologia) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN |
9783031100598
9783031100581 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Neurobiological Reductionism and the Philosophy of Science -- 2. Holism and the Theory of Autopoiesis -- 3. Neurophenomenology, Enactive Cognition, and the Embodied Mind -- 4. Models of the Self -- 5. Self-Actualization -- 6. Neurobiological Transition in Women at Midlife -- 7. Intracrinology is Autopoietic -- 8. Psychoneurointracrine Hypothesis -- Implications for Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine -- 10. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910637703803321 |
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Gordon Susan
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 | ||
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