Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems)

Edited by Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn C. Scott

ISBN 10: 0262082497 / ISBN 13: 9780262082495

Published by Bradford Books, 1996

About this Item

Former owner's name in ink on inside front end paper. Otherwise this black leather like tome hardback is in very good condition. Some highlighting on a few pages. Otherwise, like new. (BR) Shelf 328.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems)
• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262082497
• ISBN 13: 9780262082495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Scientists and philosophers are focusing more intensely than ever on the nature of our human experience, resulting in a newly coalescing field of Consciousness Studies that has become a worldwide and highly interdisciplinary phenomenon.

Toward a Science of Consciousness marks the first major gathering -- a landmark event -- devoted entirely to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. It explores the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, to neural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the physics of reality. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus on many scattered areas of inquiry.

Following an overview, fifty-five chapters are divided into ten sections: philosophy, cognitive science, medicine/pathology, neurology, neural networks, subneural biology, quantum theory, non-locality in space and time, hierarchical organization, and phenomenology.

In addition to the editors, who are, respectively, an anesthesiologist, a psychologist, and an applied mathematician, contributors include such luminaries as David Chalmers, Michael Conrad, Avshalom Elitzur, Owen Flanagan, David Galin, John Kihlstrom, Christof Koch, Benjamin Libet, Roger Penrose, Karl Pribram, Gary Schwartz, Petra Stoerig, John Taylor, Andrew Weil, Fred Wolf, and many others.

Review

"The exploration of consciousness is one of the most challenging problemsof the human mind, where bold new concepts are required. Thisbook provides the reader with exciting new ideas from a varietyof scientific disciplines and thus serves as a highly useful basis forfuture research in this field." Hermann P. J. Haken, Professor of Theoretical Physics andSynergetics, University of Stuttgart