Consciousness Demystified

Author : Todd E. Feinberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262038811
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Demystified written by Todd E. Feinberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accounting for the subjective experiences that come from the brain (and life processes). In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt attempt to demystify consciousness—to naturalize it, by explaining that the subjective, experiencing aspects of consciousness are created by natural brain processes that evolved in natural ways. Although subjective experience is unique in nature, they argue, it is not necessarily mysterious. We need not invoke the unknown or unknowable to explain its creation. Feinberg and Mallatt flesh out their theory of neurobiological naturalism (after John Searle's biological naturalism) that recognizes the many features that brains share with other living things, lists the neural features unique to conscious brains, and explains the subjective–objective barrier naturally. They investigate common neural features among the diverse groups of animals that have primary consciousness—the type of consciousness that experiences both sensations received from the world and affects such as emotions. They map the evolutionary development of consciousness and find an uninterrupted progression over time, without inserting any mysterious forces or exotic physics. Finally, bridging the previously unbridgeable, they show how subjective experience, although different from objective observation, can be naturally explained.

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316439487
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Explained written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots--are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book.

Author : Sanjeev Kumar Jain
Publisher : White Falcon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 938993222X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Explained Scientifically by Substance Dualism written by Sanjeev Kumar Jain and published by White Falcon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘How the consciousness comes into existence?’ is the second top unanswered mystery in science. The top unanswered mystery is ‘what is the universe made of?’ Physicalism or materialism finds itself quite inadequate to explain mental qualities and free will in terms of excitation of neurons and their modular connections. Untangling the mystery of consciousness has been esteemed as the proudest achievement of humankind. Consciousness is left as the last frontier in science whose explanation may perhaps require the conceptualisation of soul and god; otherwise, any divine soul or god is denied in existence, as it does not fit into the known science. This book explains consciousness by conceiving a scientific soul that leads to a plausible explanation for all aspects of consciousness and also leads to God. This book describes and explains consciousness comprehensively. Its offshoot also leads us a possible explanation for near-death-experiences, the origin of life and parapsychology. This book will lead you to know your thyself. It will awaken your spirit of inquiry for such questions as ‘who am I’ and ‘who is God’ while providing some answers also.

Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262530743
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter and Consciousness written by Paul M. Churchland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. "A Bradford Book"

Author : Science News
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626818436
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness written by Science News and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology of its groundbreaking articles, Science News brings us a riveting look at the mystery of human consciousness. Despite advances in neuroscience that have allowed us to peer into the inner workings of the brain, a deeper understanding of the mind remains elusive. From early attempts to pinpoint the exact location of consciousness to today’s ongoing explorations of communications between nerve cells, scientists have wrestled with how to define such a nebulous concept. The articles in this book, curated from the extensive Science News archive, explore the ways science attempts to explain consciousness. Studies of perception, both normal and altered, contribute to our understanding, and research on nonhuman consciousness offer insights and depth. The collection leaves us with profound and poignant questions: Is the concept of conscious decision-making an illusion? And do humans truly possess free will? Since 1921, Society for Science & the Public has facilitated global understanding of important scientific discoveries and issues. Since the first publication of the Science News-Letter in 1922, they have grown their audience to millions of readers each year. Now, Science News exposes new readers to thrilling concepts and innovative theories in Consciousness.

Author : Santosh Jha
Publisher : Santosh Jha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incidence Of Love: Demystified And Decoded written by Santosh Jha and published by Santosh Jha. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million questions in love, about love – How to be sure, I am in love? What does it feel to be in love? Is this true love? Does she/he love me or love me not? What exactly is love? How to be an ideal lover, how to love the best possible way…? All 3Ms – Mystery, Marvel and Magic about love that create 3Cs – Confusion, Conflict and Chaos, now demystified. It is easy, simple, honest and impacting. New millennium; time to Unlearn archaic and populist Perceptions about the celebration of life-living called Love. Contemporary and factually logical Knowledge offers singular answer to millions of questions about Love. This book Deciphers and Decodes everything the idea and reality of Love can take in, to stand you as Empowered-Endowed Lover. Wisdom is Wellness. Let it sink in. What sinks, stays.

Author : Loomis Mayer
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412259
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and Transcendence written by Loomis Mayer and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central but rarely explored mystery of human existence and subjective consciousness was recognized by Blaise Pascal several centuries ago: Why am I me and not you or anyone else? Science can explain why there is (objectively) a person here, but not why that person is (subjectively) me. This relates to the more widely debated mind/body problem, more currently known as the "Hard Problem of Consciousness." Moving on to human culture, including religion and the arts, this book asks whether these are the direct result of Darwinian evolution or, rather, of the nature of human consciousness. Do the mysteries of our consciousness, of our existence, have a role to play?

Author : Nithyananda Paramahamsa
Publisher : eNPublishers
ISBN 13 : 1606070738
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 3 written by Nithyananda Paramahamsa and published by eNPublishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pieter F. Craffert
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1779953135
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The fabric(ation) of consciousness written by Pieter F. Craffert and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is central to the quest for being human and for what the world is made of. While there is widespread agreement on the significance of consciousness for clarifying the human condition, there is no agreement on the phenomenon in search of theorising. Although there is no shortage of theories and concepts of consciousness in current consciousness research, the dominant critical analysis of consciousness research in this study, although based on existing analyses, is (as far as I can see) new and unique in arguing for a crisis in consciousness research. This book touches on most aspects of consciousness research (the hard problem of conscious-ness, neural correlates of consciousness, brain models and consciousness, consciousness and dualistic thinking, etc.) but is a critical analysis of consciousness research. It is not an insider but a third-person perspective on current consciousness research. In this regard, it differs from most introductions and overviews where these topics are presented from a first-person perspective (the insiders' claim about their research). Representing the broad spectrum of consciousness research in terms of the theoretical framework of a neuro-ecological perspective is a new and innovative move.

Author : Nithyananda Paramahamsa
Publisher : eNPublishers
ISBN 13 : 160607072X
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bhagavad Gita Demystified Volume 2 written by Nithyananda Paramahamsa and published by eNPublishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: