How the Self Controls Its Brain

Eccles, John C.

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K（1994/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783540562900
• DDC分類 612.82

Full Description

In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.

Contents

1 The Problem.- 2 Dualist-interactionism-My Story.- 3 Recent Theoretical Studies on the Mind-Brain Problem.- 4 New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events.- 5 Do Mental Events Cause Neural Events Analogously to the Probability Fields of Quantum Mechanics?.- 6 A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex.- 7 The Evolution of Consciousness.- 8 The Evolution of Complexity of the Brain with the Emergence of Consciousness.- 9 Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness (F. Beck and J. C. Eccles).- 10 The Self and Its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.