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Document Type: | Book |
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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. |
Abstract:
This text examines consciousness, ranging from ancient Greece to empirical neuro-psychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. It includes a review of the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consciousness.
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