Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship. 1st ed. 2012

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edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012

著者名:

• Moreira-Almeida, Alexander.
• Santana Santos, Franklin.
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シリーズ名:

Mindfulness in Behavioral Health ;

ISBN:

9781461406471 [1461406471]    

注記:

Foreword; R. Cloninger -- Preface; A. Moreira-Almeida, F. Santana Santos -- Part I. Philosophy and History -- Materialism’s eternal return: recurrent patterns of materialistic explanations of mental phenomena; S. de Freitas Araujo -- The major objections from reductive materialism against belief in the existence of cartesian mind-body dualism; R. Almeder -- Psychic Phenomena and the Mind-Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition; C. S. Alvarado -- Part II – Physics -- No-collapse Physics and Consciousness; C. J. S. Clarke -- The ‘Quantum Soul’ - A Scientific Hypothesis; S. Hameroff and D. Chopra -- Part III - Functional Neuroimaging -- The Neurobiological Correlates of Meditation and Mindfulness; J. Edwards, J. Peres, D. A. Monti, and A. Newberg -- Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional Self-Regulation and Spiritual Experiences; M. Beauregard -- Part IV - Human Experiences as Promising lines of investigation of Mind-brain relationship -- Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Brain
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. And the brain-as-computer concept precludes even the remotest possibility of spirituality. As described throughout the history of humankind, seemingly spiritual mental phenomena, including transcendent states, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and past-life memories have recently been well documented and treated scientifically. In addition, the brain-as-computer approach has been challenged by advocates of quantum brain biology, who are possibly able to explain, scientifically, nonlocal, seemingly spiritual mental states. Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship argues against the purely physical analys

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