The New Science of Consciousness
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The New Science of Consciousness

Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self

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eBook - ePub

The New Science of Consciousness

Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self

About this book

This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership. The new science goes well beyond traditional cognitive science and simple neural networks, which are often the focus in artificial intelligence research. It involves many fields including neuroscience, artificial intelligence, physics, cognitive science, and psychiatry. What causes autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease? How does our unconscious influence our actions? As the author shows, these important questions can be viewed in a new light when neuroscientists and complexity scientists work together. This cross-disciplinary approach also offers fresh insights into the major unsolved challenge of our age: the origin of self-awareness. Do minds emerge from brains? Or is something more involved? Using human social networks as a metaphor, the author explains how brain behavior can be compared with the collective behavior of large-scale global systems. Emergent global systems that interact and form relationships with lower levels of organization and the surrounding environment provide useful models for complex brain functions.By blending lucid explanations with illuminating analogies, this book offers the general reader a window into the latest exciting developments in brain research.

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Information

Publisher
Prometheus
Year
2016
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781633882201
Subtopic
Diseases & Allergies
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction to Mind and Brain
  7. Chapter 2: The Science and Philosophy of Mind
  8. Chapter 3: A Brief Look into Brain Structure and Function
  9. Chapter 4: States of Mind
  10. Chapter 5: Signatures of Consciousness
  11. Chapter 6: Rhythms of the Brain
  12. Chapter 7: Brain Synchrony, Coherence, and Resonance
  13. Chapter 8: Networks of the Brain
  14. Chapter 9: Introduction to the Hard Problem
  15. Chapter 10: Multiscale Speculations on the Hard Problem
  16. Glossary
  17. Notes
  18. Index

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