Consciousness : social perspectives, psychological approaches and current research / Lloyd Alvarado, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alvarado, Lloyd, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on cognitive psychology.

Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consciousness is a phenomenon that puzzled many thinkers of the past in disparate fields, including theology, literature, art and philosophy, and continues to be a hot topic of debate at present. However, in the last few decades, the change of paradigm brought by cognitive psychology and the emergence of new techniques, which allowed the in vivo study of the human brain, have made the investigation of consciousness a respectable field of scientific research. This book discusses social perspectives of consciousness, as well as provides current research on psychological approaches.

Contents:

CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES, PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND CURRENT RESEARCH ; CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES, PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND CURRENT RESEARCH ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 ORIGIN OF SPIRIT AND LIFE ; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. HOLOGRAPHIC WORLDS ; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2 SPIRIT BLUEPRINT AND BEYOND ; ABSTRACT ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3 CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY AND SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL OBSTACLE AND GRASPABILITY BARRIER IN SCIENCE; THE SPECIFICITY OF THE SYSTEMS APPROACH

CONCLUDING IN SCIENCE: METAPHOR AND BLUFF THE NATURE OF THEORY AND DEFINITION ; PHYSICS, BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY; THE STRUCTURAL ASPECT OF CONSCIOUSNESS: BERNSTEIN'S PERSPECTIVE ; CONSCIOUSNESS: FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS AND SEQUENCE OF CRUCIAL EVENTS IN HUMAN MOTOR BEHAVIOR ; CONSCIOUSNESS, SELF AND SOUL ; CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTELLECT FROM A SYSTEM-THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4 ATTENTION AND CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; THE VIRTUAL NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ; THE ROLE OF ATTENTION IN THE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

THE PERIODIC NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTIONAL PROCESSING THE ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY ATTENTIONAL DISCRETE PROCESSING ; SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES ; Chapter 5 COGNITIVE PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COMPUTATIONAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. THE NATURE OF PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS ; 3. THE COMPUTATIONAL EXPLANATORY GAP ; 4. BRIDGING THE GAP ; 5. IDENTIFYING COMPUTATIONAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ; Representational Properties ; System Properties ; Self-Modeling ; Relational Properties ; Cognitive Control ; DISCUSSION

REFERENCES Chapter 6 CONSCIOUSNESS: USING CLINICAL EVIDENCE TO LINK CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITS TWIN PERILS OF PSYCHOSIS AND VIOLENCE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; SIMPLIFYING CONSCIOUSNESS ; DETHRONING NEWTON; ALL THE UNKNOWABLES ; HOW 'SIMPLE' ARE COMPUTERS? ; THE ROOTS NEED PRUNING ; THE FIRST CLINICAL CASE: VIOLENCE ; THE SECOND CLINICAL CASE: A PRISONER'S LETTER ; THE THIRD CLINICAL CASE: PSYCHOSIS ; CONCLUSION ; IN SUM, My 5-Rules-of-Thumb:; REFERENCES ; Chapter 7 WHERE IS THE OS OF THE BRAIN?: PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OUTSIDE THE BRAIN; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; Monism and Dualism

Re-Examine the Basis-What Else Do We Need? SECTION 1. MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE - OUR UNIVERSE IS NOT THE ONLY UNIVERSE! ; Dissatisfaction with Status Quo Is the "Steppingstone to the Development" ; Does Superstring Theory Save Physics? ; Brane Model ; Path to Solution for "Hierarchy Problem" - ADD Model ; Warped Universe - RS Model ; SECTION 2. ADVANCE MODEL OF "CONSCIOUSNESS INDEPENDENT FROM BRAIN" ; What Is Non-Computability of Intellect? ; Theoretical Effect of General Relativity Generates the "Consciousness"!? ; Issue on "Non-Computability = Collapse of Wave Function"

Proto-Conscious - Consciousness Which Stays Alive After Death

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63485-045-9