Overview

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.This volume unites the creme de la creme of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how consciousness can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.

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Author:   Roman R Poznanski (The Rockefeller Univ, Usa) ,  Jack A Tuszynski (Univ Of Alberta, Canada) ,  Todd E Feinberg (Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   1.202kg
ISBN:  

9789814644259

ISBN 10:   9814644250
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   18 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface; Foreword (Searle); List of Contributors; Neurobiological Naturalism (Feinberg and Mallatt); The Evolutionary Origins of Consciousness (Feinberg and Mallatt); How Language Evolution Reshaped Human Consciousness (Arbib); A Neuropsychoanalytical Approach to The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Solms); Can Qualitative Biophysics Solve the Hard Problem? (Pereira Jr, Vimal and Pregnolato); Neural Transition Dynamics and Conscious Perceptive States (Bernroider); The Integrative Function of Consciousness (Manzotti and Chella); On The Brain's Electromagnetic Field System as the Origin of Consciousness (Hales); Subjective Experiences as Periodicities of Energies in Quantum Brain Dynamics (Poznanski et al.); Electrochemical and Quantum Dynamical Modes of Signaling in Microtubules (Friesen, Craddock and Tuszynski); Consciousness in the Universe - A Review of the Orch OR Theory (Hameroff and Penrose);

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