How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

by John C. Eccles

Overview

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 prominentnames 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642492266
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/09/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Problem.- 2 Dualist-interactionism—My Story.- 3 Recent Theoretical Studies on the Mind-Brain Problem.- 4 New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events.- 5 Do Mental Events Cause Neural Events Analogously to the Probability Fields of Quantum Mechanics?.- 6 A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex.- 7 The Evolution of Consciousness.- 8 The Evolution of Complexity of the Brain with the Emergence of Consciousness.- 9 Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness (F. Beck and J. C. Eccles).- 10 The Self and Its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.