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Springer Solving the Mind-Body Problem by the CODAM Neural Model of Consciousness? by John G. Taylor
This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease (especially schizophrenia) and on meditative states (including drug-induced states of mind). Solving the Mind-Body Problem bridges the gap that exists between philosophers of mind and the neuroscience community, allowing the enormous weight of theorizing on the nature of mind to be brought to earth and put under the probing gaze of the scientific facts of life and mind._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
Preface_x000D_
Chapter 1 The Story of Consciousness_x000D_
Chapter 2 The Search for Consciousness in the Brain _x000D_
Chapter 3 Attention Versus Consciousness: Fused or Independent?_x000D_
Chapter 4 Current Brain Based Models of Consciousness_x000D_
Chapter 5 The Control Nature of Attention_x000D_
Chapter 6 The Full CODAM Model_x000D_
Chapter 7 The Owner, The Inner Self and CODAM_x000D_
Chapter 8 Does 'I' Really Exist?_x000D_
Chapter 9 Does the Corollary Discharger of Attention Exist?_x000D_
Chapter 10 Understanding the Mental Disease of Schizophrenia _x000D_
Chapter 11 The Escape from Life Through Meditation_x000D_
Chapter 12 The Evolution of Human Consciousness_x000D_
Chapter 13 Animal Consciousness_x000D_
Chapter 14 Understanding Consciousness and Emotions_x000D_
Chapter 15 Solving the Mind-Body Problem _x000D_
Chapter 16 Is there Free Will in CODAM?_x000D_
Chapter 17 Beyond CODAM?_x000D_