Neurowaves : brain, time, and consciousness / Georg Northoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Northoff, Georg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain.

Consciousness.

Mind and body.

Time perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain's inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains - neurowaves - is the basis of our mental experiences of the world.

Contents:

Neurowaves: Brain, Time, and Consciousness

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Brain's Mental Surfing

Time in Ancient Greece: Chronos and Kairos

Time in Classical Physics: The Container View

Time in Contemporary Physics: The Construction View

Lessons from Ancient China: From Brain Dynamic to Mind Dynamic

Mental Features: The World-Brain Relation

Mental Features Are Dynamic Features

The Structure of This Volume

Time beyond Humans - From Other Species over Artificial Intelligence to the Mind-Body Problem

The Self as Wave

Chapter 1: Brain Time

Introduction

The Container versus Construction View of Time

The Brain's Inner Time

The Brain's Inner Time: Frequencies and Temporal Windows

The Brain's Inner Time: Scale-Free Activity

From the Brain's Inner Time to the World's Inner Time

Convergence of Time and Space

The Brain's Inner Space: Spatial Structure of the Brain's Spontaneous Activity

The Brain's Inner Space: Convergence of Spatial Extension with Temporal Duration

The Active Brain and Its Inner Time

A Passive Model of the Brain: Perception and Cognition of Outer Time

An Active Model of Brain: Spontaneous Activity

From Brain to Mind: Inner Time as Their Common Currency

Conclusion

Chapter 2: From Brain Time to World Time

Brain Time: Scale-Free Dynamic and Consciousness

Breakdown of Scale-Free Dynamic

Breakdown of Consciousness

Extension of Consciousness

Brain + World = Consciousness

"Self-Similarity" of the World and the Brain

The Correlated Walk of the World and the Brain

Mental Surfing on the World's Waves

"Locked in the World" versus "Locked out of the World"

From World to Brain: Consciousness Extends beyond Brain and Body

Locked in the Body but Not Locked out of the World.

Coma and Vegetative State: Sensory versus Motor Functions

Locked out of the World versus Locked in the Body

Chapter 3: The Tango of Brain Time and Body Time

Tango Time: Brain and Body

Heart and Brain

Stomach and Brain

Time as the Common Currency of Body and Brain

From Brain-Body Time to the Contents of Consciousness

Consciousness: External Contents

Consciousness: Internal Contents

Consciousness: Kant's Errors

Is Consciousness Special or Non-special?

Consciousness: Dualism of Mind and Body

Consciousness Is Special: "Old Wine in New Bottles"

Consciousness Is Non-special: "New Wine in New Bottles"

Chapter 4: Self Time and Its Duration

Self: Change and Persistence

The Time Paradox of Self: Co-occurrence of Sameness and Difference

The Brain's Inner Time and the Self

Spatial Structure of the Self in the Brain: Cortical Midline Structures and the Mental Self

The Inner Time of Our Brain: Big and Powerful Waves in Cortical Midline Structures

The Inner Time of Our Self: Big and Powerful Waves

From Inner Time to Duration

Duration of the Brain: Extension of Inner Time through the Slower Frequencies' Cycle Durations

Duration of the Self: "Common Currency of Self and Brain"

Duration of Personal Identity: Scale-Freeness across Shorter and Longer Timescales

The Self: Atemporal or Temporal?

Logical World of Philosophy: The Self Is Atemporal

Biological or Natural World of Neuroscience: The Self Is Temporal

What Is Duration? Henri Bergson and the Notion of Elapsed Time

Duration Constitutes Our Self

Chapter 5: Time Speed in Brain and Mind

Speed of Time - Speed of the Brain

From Horse Racing to the Brain's Different Frequencies

From Neuronal Speed to Mental Speed.

Too Slow or Too Fast: Depression and Mania

Mania and Depression: Inner and Outer Time Speed

How to Measure the Time Speed of the Brain: Neuronal Variability

Neuronal Variability in Depression and Mania

The Self in Depression: Increased and Too Slow

Self and Cortical Midline Structures

Depression: Increased Self and Its Prolonged Duration

Chapter 6: Beyond Human Time

Timescales in Other Species

Human and Non-human Species: Cross-Evolutionary Timescale Sharing

Timescale Differences between Human and Non-human Species

Timescales in Artificial Agents

Artificial Agents: Modularity and Representation

Brains: Topography of Different Timescales along a Uni- and Transmodal Gradient

Stochastic Matching of Timescales Replaces Representation

Do Timescale- and Matching-Based Artificial Agents Have an "Experience of Self"?

From the Mind-Body Problem to the World-Brain Problem

Timescales of the World, the Brain, and the Mind

Time Shapes the Mind: Common Currency of the World, the Brain, and the Mind

Coda: Copernican Revolution in Neuroscience and Philosophy

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Northoff, Georg Neurowaves

ISBN:

9780228018179

022801817X

9780228018186

0228018188

OCLC:

1353604533