Treatise On The Neurophilosophy Of Consciousness

Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra, Esq.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 1079 pages
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Release : 2012-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781466949003

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TREATISE ON THE NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra, Esq. Pdf

I would like to invite all those studious of the mind/brain interface puzzle to share our insights. What follows represents an ongoing series of reflections on the ontology of consciousness based on some intuitions on life, language acquisition and survival strategies to accommodate the biological, psychic and social imperatives of human life in its ecological niche, thus the BPS model. For the latest publication click on BPS Model. http://www.delaSierra-Sheffer.net/ID-Neurophilo-net/index.htm

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Uti Ojah Egbai,Samuel T. Segun,Aribiah D. Attoe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030142629

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New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Uti Ojah Egbai,Samuel T. Segun,Aribiah D. Attoe Pdf

This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Inside, three scholars offer approaches to the problems of identity, consciousness, and the mind. In the process, they open new vistas for thought and raise fresh controversies to some of the oldest problems in philosophy. The first chapter focuses on the identity problem. The author employs an explanatory model he christened sense-phenomenalism to defend the thesis that personal identity is something or a phenomenon that pertains to the observable/perceptible aspect of the human person. The next chapter explores the problem of consciousness. It deploys the new concept equiphenomenalism as a model to show that mental properties are not by-products but necessary products of consciousness. Herein, the notion of qualia is a fundamental and necessary product that must be experienced simultaneously with neural activities for consciousness to be possible. The last chapter addresses the mind/body problem. It adopts the new concept proto-phenomenalism as an alternative explanatory model. This model eliminates the idea of a mind. As such, it approaches the mind-body problem from a materialistic point of view with many implications such as, the meaning(lessness) of our existence, the possibility of thought engineering as well as religious implications.

Author : Georg Northoff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393709391

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Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Brain by Georg Northoff Pdf

Applying insights from neuroscience to philosophical questions about the self, consciousness, and the healthy mind. Can we “see” or “find” consciousness in the brain? How can we create working definitions of consciousness and subjectivity, informed by what contemporary research and technology have taught us about how the brain works? How do neuronal processes in the brain relate to our experience of a personal identity? Where does the brain end and the mind begin? To explore these and other questions, esteemed philosopher and neuroscientist Georg Northoff turns to examples of unhealthy minds. By investigating consciousness through its absence—in people in vegetative states, for example—we can develop a model for understanding its presence in an active, healthy person. By examining instances of distorted self-recognition in people with psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia, we can begin to understand how the experience of “self” is established in a stable brain. Taking an integrative approach to understanding the self, consciousness, and what it means to be mentally healthy, this book brings insights from neuroscience to bear on philosophical questions. Readers will find a science-grounded examination of the human condition with far-reaching implications for psychology, medicine, our daily lives, and beyond.

Author : Patricia Churchland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393240634

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Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves by Patricia Churchland Pdf

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences—trailblazing neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland grounds the philosophy of mind in the essential ingredients of biology. She reflects with humor on how she came to harmonize science and philosophy, the mind and the brain, abstract ideals and daily life. Offering lucid explanations of the neural workings that underlie identity, she reveals how the latest research into consciousness, memory, and free will can help us reexamine enduring philosophical, ethical, and spiritual questions: What shapes our personalities? How do we account for near-death experiences? How do we make decisions? And why do we feel empathy for others? Recent scientific discoveries also provide insights into a fascinating range of real-world dilemmas—for example, whether an adolescent can be held responsible for his actions and whether a patient in a coma can be considered a self. Churchland appreciates that the brain-based understanding of the mind can unnerve even our greatest thinkers. At a conference she attended, a prominent philosopher cried out, “I hate the brain; I hate the brain!” But as Churchland shows, he need not feel this way. Accepting that our brains are the basis of who we are liberates us from the shackles of superstition. It allows us to take ourselves seriously as a product of evolved mechanisms, past experiences, and social influences. And it gives us hope that we can fix some grievous conditions, and when we cannot, we can at least understand them with compassion.

Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra ESQ.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466993419

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Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol. Vi by Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra ESQ. Pdf

Anyone who has ever enjoyed the honor to lecture a graduate school audience will tell you that simplicity in delivery as a goal is a worthwhile pragmatic and theoretical virtue if and only the expected and appropriate cognitive content are aimed at the student and not for self indulgence, independent of the corresponding level of complexity to be communicated. There is a tacit presumption that selling/marketing an idea by a professor implies there must be a buyer student purchase for a pedagogical transaction to be completed. Unless, of course, the professor, consciously knowing (or not) is engaged in a self-serving soliloquy assuming as primitive, self-evident complex propositions and often expressed as either inspired on a radical conceptual theosophy or based on a radical empirical, probable/statistical scientific lab result as characterized by extremist pronouncements. Yet, the very complex and changing nature of the object/event, in its dynamic evolutionary progression in our Minkowsky 4-d space time existential reality, opts to reveal its complexity to human audiences in the form of the simplest possible model-poems solution that are compatible with the students undeveloped brain dynamics phenomenology and combinatorial limitations, as amply detailed in our other publications. We now expand further on the justifications for our general poem on the evolution of complexity as discussed under The Immanent Invariant and the Transcendental Transforming Horizons. We need to harmonize integrative the exotic idealistic speculations and conjectures of conceptual models with the empirical/pragmatic measurements coming out of the lab. See Ch. 12, Nurophilosophy of Consciousness., Vol. IV and Vol. V.

Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466978560

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Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol. V and Yogi by Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra Pdf

In this continuation of our speculations and conjectures about brain dynamics as it pertains the attainment of the introspective self conscious state and the concomitant brain proto language faculty activation -both sine qua non antecedents to the decision making process- we are now trying to get a clearer picture about what seems to our species confusion of consciously experiencing two simultaneous but opposing perspectives of the same existential 4-d reality and how it may impact the conscious free judgment on the priority to be assigned to any important and relevant issue to the human species. Which one should we adopt to guide our lives today and the day after tomorrow? Of course we are more concerned with the above average responsible citizen looking beyond the conveniences of a quotidian hedonistic Sartrean existentialism where pleasurable enjoyment is routinely satisfied ahead of known but ignored necessities for the lasting survival of the human species generations ahead. How can we reconcile these seemingly opposing views we need to take into account? This realistic approach is called compromise, hybridization or complementarity and the assumption that hidden variables -if any- beyond human brain phenomenological or combinatorial threshold would always bring Heisenberg-type uncertainties to reckon with. These can be either the choice of exclusive biopsychosocial (BPS) imperatives for any living species survival as opposed to the altruistic, spiritual life against self interests of the historical prophets or the more familiar Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) complementarities between the position of a particulate object of mass (m) and its momentum when we try to measure them. Likewise for energy and time. Underlying these seemingly opposite/contrasting appearances are subthreshold physical interactions. These considerations force you to adopt a quantum statistical probabilistic view of reality relying on falsifiability, predictability and mathematical logic manipulations of symbolic representations of measurable/observed facts. But when it comes to human judgments these coexisting complementarities, i.e., the subconscious species survival BPS imperative drives we share with other evolved species to stay alive now and then and the conscious species survival across generations sacrifices a few were willing to endure against self interest, resist being framed into coherent rules of metaphysical logic for analysis..

Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra Esq.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781490793610

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“What Came First the Egg (Reason) or the Hen (Emotions)?" by Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra Esq. Pdf

At Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, we are dedicated to providing the academic neurophilosophy professional with a friendly forum to debate, discuss, share and learn all relevant biopsychosocial (BPS) aspects of life and consciousness. We have made it our mission to advance and update this complex conundrum of variables to provide reliable information to our professional readers, such evolving variables as we witness during measurements and observations of perceptual, conceptual information with the help of the mathematical logic probability tool.

Author : Dr. Angell de la Sierra Esq.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490791739

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A Probable Complex Future Evolving from a Historical Past Seen from a Moderate Perspective by Dr. Angell de la Sierra Esq. Pdf

This is an autobiographical novel and a veridical but fictionalized account based on memoirs from the temporal evolution of a premature, mixed-breed orphan sharing an old house with six other cousins in colonial Puerto Rico and life in Europe and Eastern USA.

Author : William P. Banks
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080920429

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Encyclopedia of Consciousness by William P. Banks Pdf

Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation. Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state. Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self; neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves and which parts of the brain control that awareness. Cognitive scientists have mapped the circuitry that allows machines to have some form of self awareness, and neuroscientists investigate similar circuitry in the human brain. Research that once was separate inquiries in discreet disciplines is converging. List serves and small conferences focused on consciousness are proliferating. New journals have emerged in this field. A huge number of monographs and edited treatises have recently been published on consciousness, but there is no recognized entry point to the field, no comprehensive summary. This encyclopedia is that reference. Organized alphabetically by topic, coverage encompasses a summary of major research and scientific thought regarding the nature of consciousness, the neural circuitry involved, how the brain, body, and world interact, and our understanding of subjective states. The work includes contributions covering neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence to provide a comprehensive backdrop to recent and ongoing investigations into the nature of conscious experience from a philosophical, psychological, and biological perspective.

Author : Gordon G. Globus
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027252135

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The Transparent Becoming of World by Gordon G. Globus Pdf

"The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence." --Book Jacket.

Author : Angell O. de la Sierra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 1411639820

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Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, a Biopsychosocial Model by Angell O. de la Sierra Pdf

A provocative multidisciplinary approach to an understanding of introspective, self-consciousness as a survival strategy for the human species encompassing biologic, psychic, social aspects and their attending scientific and philosophical abstractions.

Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781490712376

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Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol.Vii by Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra Pdf

The information explosion we have witnessed in the last two decades has unexpectedly accelerated the relentless, forward evolutionary process of complexity as experienced in the real existential reality as narrated from human to human in the language semantic accounts of our communications. Sometimes there are consistent, verifiable experiences by all witnesses that resist being described in common language terms and their undeniable presence must then be inferred by using justifiable representation and must be communicated instead in a justifiable symbolic or sentential representation as an ideal explanation model. We then have two choices to fashion our model, we can either sacrifice the elegance of the model if we base it strictly on verifiable observables or emphasize on the elegance of a more demanding mathematical logic representation of the same subjective experience. Both approaches lead to the same speculations/conjectures about the micro or macro cosmological environment of the unseen. The author endorses the Lagrangian Quantum Field Theory (QFT) as our most empirically, well-confirmed physical theory where the ideal explanation of the metaphysical component of the empirical object/events is more reliable than the axiomatic approach mathematical theorists prefer. However the best of both must harmonize. The reliance on verifiable sensory facts excels in the expediency of calculations and their intuitive understanding because it is closer to phenomenological experimental manipulation in the physics lab. That makes the derived metaphysical ideal model poem more credible when applying the theory to make predictions. If we had to choose only one it is clear that when pragmatics and rigor lead to the same conclusion, then, as the author has argued, pragmatics trumps rigor due to the resulting simplicity, efficiency, and increase in understanding made possible. Most important, however, is that it allows for preparations for unexpected new environmental circumstances as they get empirically detected. Consequently, a hybrid unit wholeness of existential mesoscopic reality is defended.

Author : Angell O. De La Sierra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466978570

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Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol. V and Yogi by Angell O. De La Sierra Pdf

In this continuation of our speculations and conjectures about brain dynamics as it pertains the attainment of the introspective self conscious state and the concomitant brain proto language faculty activation -both 'sine qua non' antecedents to the decision making process- we are now trying to get a clearer picture about what seems to our species confusion of consciously experiencing two simultaneous but opposing perspectives of the same existential 4-d reality and how it may impact the conscious free judgment on the priority to be assigned to any important and relevant issue to the human species. Which one should we adopt to guide our lives today and the 'day after tomorrow'? Of course we are more concerned with the above average responsible citizen looking beyond the conveniences of a quotidian hedonistic Sartrean existentialism where pleasurable enjoyment is routinely satisfied ahead of known but ignored necessities for the lasting survival of the human species generations ahead. How can we reconcile these seemingly opposing views we need to take into account? This realistic approach is called compromise, hybridization or complementarity and the assumption that hidden variables -if any- beyond human brain phenomenological or combinatorial threshold would always bring Heisenberg-type uncertainties to reckon with. These can be either the choice of exclusive biopsychosocial (BPS) imperatives for any living species survival as opposed to the altruistic, spiritual life against self interests of the historical prophets or the more familiar Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) complementarities between the position of a particulate object of mass (m) and its momentum when we try to measure them. Likewise for energy and time. Underlying these seemingly opposite/contrasting appearances are subthreshold physical interactions. These considerations force you to adopt a quantum statistical probabilistic view of reality relying on falsifiability, predictability and mathematical logic manipulations of symbolic representations of measurable/observed facts. But when it comes to human judgments these coexisting complementarities, i.e., the subconscious species survival BPS imperative drives we share with other evolved species to stay alive 'now and then' and the conscious species survival across generations sacrifices a few were willing to endure against self interest, resist being framed into coherent rules of metaphysical logic for analysis..

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400760027

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Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience by Richard Brown Pdf

This volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.com in February and March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to help us solve philosophical issues in the philosophy of mind, what the true nature of black and white vision, pain, auditory, olfactory, or multi-modal experiences are, to higher-order theories of consciousness, synesthesia, among others. Each chapter includes a target article, commentaries, and in most cases, a final response from the author. Though wide-ranging all of the papers aim to understand consciousness both from the inside, as we experience it, and from the outside as we encounter it in our science. The Online Consciousness Conference, founded and organized by Richard Brown, is dedicated to the rigorous study of consciousness and mind. The goal is to bring philosophers, scientists, and interested lay persons together in an online venue to promote high-level discussion and exchanging of views, ideas and data related to the scientific and philosophical study of consciousness.

Author : Otto Creutzfeldt,John Carew Eccles,János Szentágothai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Brain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040692688

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The Brain-mind Problem by Otto Creutzfeldt,John Carew Eccles,János Szentágothai Pdf