Interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness and the self /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Menon, Sangeetha, Sinha, Anindya, Sreekantan, B. V.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Subjects:	Consciousness. Philosophy of mind. Psychiatry. Humanities. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Consciousness, Agency and the Self
Chapter 2: Conscious Agency and the Preconscious/Unconscious Self
Chapter 3: Finding the Self and Losing the Ego in the State of Pure Consciousness
Chapter 4: Converging on the Self: Western Philosophy, Eastern Meditation, Scientific Research
Chapter 5: The Self as Organiser
Chapter 6: Reconceptualizing the Separative Self. Chapter 7: Consciousness, Memory and Dreams in Kashyapa Samhita. Chapter 8: Experientially Acquired Knowledge of the Self in a Nonhuman Primate
Chapter 9: Executive Functions as a Path to Understanding Nonhuman Con-sciousness: Looking under the Light
Chapter 10: Self, Identity and Culture
Part II: Self and First-person Phenomenology
Chapter 11: Consciousness and First Person Phenomenology: First steps towards an Experiential Phenomenological Writing and Reading (EWR)
Chapter 12: Self and Neurophenomenology: Gift and Responsibility
Chapter 13: The Inside-Outside Story of Consciousness: A Phenomenological Exploration
Chapter 14: Self and Empathy
Chapter 15: Adapted Self in the Context of Disability: An Ecological, Embodied Perspective
Chapter 16: Self and Transformative Experiences: Three Indian Philosophers on Consciousness
Part III: Boundaries of the Self and Origins of Consciousness
Chapter 17: Soul, Neurons, Particles, or Mind-at-Large? Exploring the Boundaries of the Self
Chapter 18: Is the Source of Awareness Present in the Quantum Vacuum?
Chapter 19: Cosmological Considerations Relevant to the Origin of Consciousness
Chapter 20: Reality and Consciousness: Is Quantum Biology the Future of Life Sciences?
Chapter 21: Human Brain is a Coherent State of the Mind
Chapter 22: Consciousness, Functional Geometry and Internal Representation
Chapter 23: Consciousness, Libertarian Free Will and Quantum Randomness.