Keywords:
Neurosciences -- Philosophy.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (374 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789401787741
Series Statement:
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series ; v.6
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1731562
DDC:
612.809
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1: Beginnings: Ventricular Psychology -- 1.1 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of the Mind and Brain Sciences -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Spinoza's Philosophy -- 2.2.1 Nature as a Whole -- 2.2.2 Singular Things -- 2.2.3 Human Psychology: Cognition and Emotion -- 2.3 The Reception of Spinoza's Ideas -- 2.3.1 Enlightenment Thought and Research -- 2.3.2 Nineteenth-Century Research -- 2.3.3 Spinozan Concepts in Recent Mind/Brain Research -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: 'Struck, As It Were, with Madness': Phenomenology and Animal Spirits in the Neuropathology of Thomas Willis -- 3.1 Willis's Felt Neuropathology -- 3.2 Willis's Two Souls -- 3.3 Sensions and Spirits -- 3.4 Vital Medicine -- 3.5 Treating Spirits -- 3.6 Neuropathology's Mad Core -- References -- Chapter 4: Hooke's Mechanical Mind -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Descartes -- 4.3 Standard Difficulties with the Cartesian Model -- 4.4 Descartes's Dualistic Legacy -- 4.5 Hooke's End Run Around the Problem -- References -- Chapter 5: Joseph Priestley: An Instructive Eighteenth Century Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Priestley's Approach to the Mind-Body Problem -- 5.2.1 Cartesian Dualism -- 5.2.2 Priestley's Rejection of Dualism -- 5.2.3 Mind Never Exists Independently of Matter -- 5.2.4 Matter Never Exists Independently of Forces and Forces Move Matter Without Contact -- 5.2.5 Consequences for Mind-Body Problem -- 5.3 The Physical-Nonphysical Divide Has No Status -- 5.4 Priestleyan Reasoning and Current Discussions of Qualia -- 5.5 Final Remarks -- References.
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Chapter 6: Reflections of Western Thinking on Nineteenth Century Ottoman Thought: A Critique of the 'Hard -Problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis, a Nineteenth Century Physiologist -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Ottoman Contributions to Medical Science -- 6.3 Who Was Spyridon Mavrogenis? -- 6.4 The Structure of Spyridon Mavrogenis' Treatise -- 6.5 The "Eastern" Perception of Western Thinking as It That Relates to the Hard-Problem -- 6.6 Spyridon Mavrogenis' Perception of Nature and His Position on the Applicability of the Natural Laws to Biology -- 6.7 Spyridon Mavrogenis' Perception of the Soul and Its Relation to Life -- 6.8 Spyridon Mavrogenis' Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: George Henry Lewes (1817-1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Mind, Body and Brain -- 7.3 Automata, Physicalism and Vitalism -- 7.4 The 'Social Medium' and Symbolic Thought -- 7.5 The Twenty First Century Relevance of Lewes' Problems -- 7.6 Lewes and the Hard Problem -- 7.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Herbert Spencer: Brain, Mind and the Hard Problem -- 8.1 Origins of The Principles of Psychology -- 8.2 The 'Universal Postulate' -- 8.3 The Experience Hypothesis -- 8.4 Subject and Object -- 8.5 Spencer and Descartes -- 8.6 Neurophysiology and the 'Hard Problem' -- 8.7 Evolution and the Hard Problem -- 8.8 Panpsychism? -- 8.9 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 9: Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and American Neurology -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Instincts -- 9.3 Reflexes -- 9.4 Localization of Brain Functions -- 9.5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Emil du Bois-Reymond's Reflections on Consciousness -- 10.1 The Limits of Science -- 10.2 The Seven Enigmas -- 10.3 Sources and Significance -- 10.4 The Famous Old Bear -- References.
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Chapter 11: William James and the "Theatre" of Consciousness -- 11.1 Volition: The Selective Agency of Consciousness -- 11.2 Evolving Forces: Psychical Research, Psychophysics, and the New Physics -- 11.3 James's Inheritors: Neurophenomenology and Physics -- 11.4 Conclusion: The Social Force Fields of Consciousness -- References -- Chapter 12: The Enigmatic Deciphering of the Neuronal Code of Word Meaning -- References -- Chapter 13: Alfred North Whitehead and the History of Consciousness -- 13.1 Placing Whitehead in Historical Context -- 13.2 Brief Introduction to Whitehead's Natural Philosophy -- 13.3 Chalmers, Whitehead, and the Hard Problem of Conscious Experience -- 13.4 Framing the Question -- 13.5 The Relationship Between Consciousness and Experience -- 13.6 The Subjective/Objective Distinction -- 13.7 Cause and Conscious Experience -- 13.8 A Few Implications of Whitehead's Natural Philosophy -- References -- Chapter 14: The 'Hard Problem' and the Cartesian Strand in British Neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles -- 14.1 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 15: Is There a Link Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness? -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.1.1 A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics -- 15.1.2 The Double Slit Experiment -- 15.2 The Measurement Problem -- 15.2.1 The Paradoxes of Schrödinger's Cat and Wigner's Friend -- 15.3 Interpretations -- 15.3.1 Bohr's 'Copenhagen' or 'Orthodox' Interpretation -- 15.3.2 The Heisenberg-Dirac 'Propensity' Interpretation -- 15.3.3 Bohm's 'Pilot Wave ' or 'Hidden Variables ' and 'Real- Particle' Interpretation -- 15.3.4 Everett's "Relative State" or " Parallel World's " ( "Many Worlds") Interpretation -- 15.3.4.1 Problems with the Many Worlds Interpretation -- 15.3.4.2 Variations to the Many Worlds Interpretation -- Variation due to Squires -- Variation due to Deutsch.
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Variation due to Lockwood -- Variation due to Albert and Loewer -- 15.4 Quantum Theories of Mind -- 15.4.1 Stapp's Theory -- 15.4.2 Hodgson's Theory -- 15.4.3 Penrose's Theory -- 15.4.4 Eccles's Early Quantum Theory of Mind -- 15.4.5 Ricciardi, Umezawa, Freeman and Vitiello's Quantum Field Theory of Mind -- 15.5 Penrose and the Brain as a Quantum Computer -- 15.6 Decoherence -- 15.6.1 Decoherence Mechanisms in the Brain -- 15.6.2 Decoherence and 'Collapse' Approaches -- 15.6.3 Problems with Decoherence -- 15.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 16: Consciousness and Neuronal Microtubules: The Penrose-Hameroff Quantum Model in Retrospect -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Neuron Structure and the Cytoskeleton -- 16.3 Microtubules -- 16.4 Microtubules Involved in Consciousness -- 16.5 Microtubules as Capable Computing Devices -- 16.6 Coherent Quantum States in Microtubules -- 16.7 Periodic Self-Reductions in Coherence of Quantum Superposition -- 16.8 The Emergence of Consciousness -- 16.9 Reactions and Contrarreactions -- 16.10 Historical Precedents -- 16.11 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 17: Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-First Century -- 17.1 Dead Souls -- 17.2 Dead Men Working -- 17.3 Dead on Arrival -- 17.4 Day of the Dead -- References -- Chapter 18: Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism -- 18.1 The Views of Antiquity -- 18.2 The Medieval Perspective -- 18.3 The Cartesian Formulation -- 18.4 What Does Mind-Body Dualism Mean Now? -- References.
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