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On the nature of consciousness : cognitive, phenomenological, and transpersonal perspectives

Author: Harry T Hunt
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book pursues an inquiry into consciousness that ranges from ancient Greece to empirical neuropsychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. Harry Hunt begins by reviewing the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consciousness. He then presents competing views of consciousness in cognition, neurophysiology, and animal psychology,  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harry T Hunt
ISBN: 0300062303 9780300062304
OCLC Number: 31815241
Description: xvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents: 1. The Most Fundamental of Empirical Questions or the Most Misguided --
What is Consciousness? --
2. Cognition and Consciousness --
3. Consciousness as Emergent: The Irrelevance of Specific Neurophysiology --
4. Consciousness as Localized: Neural Zones of Convergence and Consciousness Awareness System(s) --
5. Animal Consciousness: The Emergence of Primary Sentience in Protozoa and Self-Referential Consciousness in the Higher Primates --
6. William James and the Stream of Consciousness: Metaphor Without, Mirror Within --
7. Synesthesia: The Inner Face of Thought and Meaning --
8. The Multiplicity of Image: Phenomenology and Some Limitations of Laboratory Research --
9. Sensus Communis: A History of the Cross-Modal Theory of Mind --
10. A Cognitive Psychology of Transpersonal States --
11. Heidegger, Mahayana Buddhism, and Gibson's Ambient Array: A Logos of Sentience --
12. Consciousness as Time --
13. Consciousness as Space: Physics, Consciousness, and the Primacy of Perception --
14. Consciousness as Society.
Responsibility: Harry T. Hunt.

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