How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN [Paperback]

In this book the author has collected a number of hisimportant works and added an extensive commentary relatinghis ideas to those of other prominentnames in theconsciousness debate. The view presented here is that of aconvinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorousway the prevailing materialist doctrines of many recentworks. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-braininteraction via a quantum process affecting the release ofneurotransmitters.John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awardedthe Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He hasnumerous other awards honouring his major contributions toneurophysiology.In this book the author has collected a number of hisimportant works and added an extensive commentary relatinghis ideas to those of other prominentnames in theconsciousness debate. The view presented here is that of aconvinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorousway the prevailing materialist doctrines of many recentworks. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-braininteraction via a quantum process affecting the release ofneurotransmitters.John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awardedthe Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He hasnumerous other awards honouring his major contributions toneurophysiology.1 The Problem.- 2 Dualist-interactionismMy Story.- 3 Recent Theoretical Studies on the Mind-Brain Problem.- 4 New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events.- 5 Do Mental Events Cause Neural Events Analogously to the Probability Fields of Quantum Mechanics?.- 6 A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex.- 7 The Evolution of Consciousness.- 8 The Evolution of Complexity of the Brain with the Emergence of Consciousness.- 9 Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness (F. Beck and J. C. Eccles).- 10 The Self and Its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.l#O