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On the nature of consciousness : cognitive, phenomenological, and transpersonal perspectives /
This book pursues an inquiry into consciousness that ranges from ancient Greece to empirical neuropsychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. Harry Hunt begins by reviewing the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1995]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The most fundamental of empirical questions or the most misguided
- what is consciousness?
- Cognition and consciousness
- Consciousness as emergent: the irrelevance of specific neurophysiology
- Consciousness as localized: neural zones of convergence and consciousness awareness system(s)
- Animal consciousness: the emergence of primary sentience in protozoa and self-referential consciousness in the higher primates
- William James and the stream of consciousness: metaphor without, mirror within
- Synesthesia: the inner face of thought and meaning
- The multiplicity of image: phenomenology and some limitations of laboratory research
- Sensus communis: a history of the cross-modal theory of mind
- A cognitive psychology of transpersonal states
- Heidegger, Mahayana Buddhism, and Gibson's ambient array: a logos of sentience
- Consciousness as time
- Consciousness as space: physics, consciousness, and the primacy of perception
- Consciousness as society.