Solving the Mind-Body Problem by the Codam Neural Model of Consciousness?

ISBN-13: 9789402402544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 273 str.

John G. Taylor

Opis

This book presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the mind-body problem.

Spis treści

Preface
Chapter 1          The Story of Consciousness
Chapter 2          The Search for Consciousness in the Brain
Chapter 3          Attention Versus Consciousness: Fused or Independent?
Chapter 4          Current Brain Based Models of Consciousness
Chapter 5          The Control Nature of Attention
Chapter 6          The Full CODAM Model
Chapter 7          The Owner, The Inner Self and CODAM
Chapter 8          Does ‘I’ Really Exist?
Chapter 9          Does the Corollary Discharger of Attention Exist?
Chapter 10        Understanding the Mental Disease of Schizophrenia
Chapter 11        The Escape from Life Through Meditation
Chapter 12        The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Chapter 13        Animal Consciousness
Chapter 14        Understanding Consciousness and Emotions
Chapter 15        Solving the Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 16        Is there Free Will in CODAM?
Chapter 17        Beyond CODAM?

Blurb

This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem.

The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease (especially schizophrenia) and on meditative states (including drug-induced states of mind).

Solving the Mind-Body Problem bridges the gap that exists between philosophers of mind and the neuroscience community, allowing the enormous weight of theorizing on the nature of mind to be brought to earth and put under the probing gaze of the scientific facts of life and mind.