Being and becoming : a guide to act in the theatre of existence / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Vera Nenadovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perez Velazquez, Jose Luis.

Contributor:

Nenadovic, Vera.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences--Philosophy.

Neurosciences.

Consciousness.

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Why You Should Read This Book

Part I: The Neuroscience Perspective - Where Is My Self?

Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Self

1.1 Perception Is Everything

1.2 The Usefulness of Brains

1.3 Cognition Without a Brain: The "Thinking" Slime Mould

1.4 A Brief Tour Through the Brain, for the Non-specialist Tourist

1.5 The Cognitive Powers of a Worm and its Extremely Primeval Selfhood

1.6 On the Essence of Selves: Properties All We Perceive

1.7 The Personal Identity of Animals: A Self Through the Looking Glass

1.7.1 The Mirror Test

1.8 Of Animals and Babies: The Development of Self-Awareness in Humans

1.8.1 The Body in the Brain

1.8.2 Our Starting Consciousness in Our Early Times

Chapter 2: The Origins and the Fallacy of a Central Commander in the Brain: The Emergence of Agency and the Demise of the Concept of Free Will

2.1 Incorrect Body Perceptions: Illusions of Ownership and Out-of-Body Experiences

2.1.1 The Mind Out of the Body: Out-of-Body Experiences

2.1.2 A Mini Science Project: Elucidating the Intriguing Phenomenon of OBEs in Blind Individuals

2.2 Free Will, or What Is Free in that Will?

2.2.1 The Making of Choices: In Search of the Last Ventriloquist

2.2.2 The Will in Epileptic Patients: What Seizures Reveal About Volition

Postscript to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: The Strange World of Split-brain Patients: In Search of the Interpreter of Our Actions

3.1 Closing the Coffin of Free Will

3.1.1 A Cry for Freedom

Chapter 4: Dissociative Identity Disorders. Are Multiple Personalities Ever Lonely, or Can a Psychiatrist Charge Twice a Person with Dual Personality?

Chapter 5: The Enduring Self, or How to Annihilate the Self

Chapter 6: A Recipe for High Cognition: Are Consciousness and Self-awareness a Matter of Numbers?

Chapter 7: Demystifying Consciousness

7.1 On Emergence

7.1.1 A Criticism and a Reply

7.2 Perception is Personal: The Essence and Source of the Mystery

7.2.1 Postscript to Part I

Part II: The Biophysics Perspective - What Is My Life?

Chapter 8: A Recipe for Interesting Things to Occur

8.1 Preparing to Cook Life

8.1.1 Global Regularity From Local Mess: The Beginnings of the Living

8.1.2 Noisy Surroundings: When Noise Really Makes Sense

8.1.3 A Fluctuating World

Chapter 9: Let There Be Life

9.1 Molecular Crowding: A Tale of the Most Probable

9.2 Biological Compartmentalisation: Good Borders Make Good Neighbours

9.3 Clarifying the Entropic Fallacy

9.3.1 And Furthermore, Clarifying Other Closest Relatives of Entropy

9.4 And Yet Another Fallacy: (Wo)Man and Machine

9.5 The Dance of the Genes

Chapters 10: The Special Ones

Chapter 11: The Enduring Life

Chapter 12: And Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing

12.1 Postscript to Part II

Part III: The Philosophical Perspective - How Do I Experience Reality?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783030782641

3030782646

Publisher Number:

99988908982

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