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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

Product Description: From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, an exploration of consciousness unlike any other: the latest science framed in a dazzlingly imaginative, lavishly illustrated narrative.We would have to go back to Gödel, Escher, Bach to find even the hint of a precedent for this innovative, genre-bending book in which we accompany an elderly scientist, Galileo, on a journey in search of consciousness...read more

By Giulio Tononi

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9780307907219 | Pantheon Books, August 7, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, an exploration of consciousness unlike any other: the latest science framed in a dazzlingly imaginative, lavishly illustrated narrative.

Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the Feel of Consciousness

Product Description: This book proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans -- contrary to current robots -- can have the impression of consciously feeling things: for example the red of a sunset, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony, or a pain...read more

By J. Kevin O'regan

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9780199775224 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 24, 2011), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans -- contrary to current robots -- can have the impression of consciously feeling things: for example the red of a sunset, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony, or a pain.

Inner Presence: Consciousness As a Biological Phenomenon

Product Description: The question of consciousness is perhaps the most significant problem still unsolved by science. In Inner Presence, Antti Revonsuo proposes a novel approach to the study of consciousness that integrates findings from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience into a coherent theoretical framework...read more

By Antti Revonsuo

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9780262182492 | Mit Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The question of consciousness is perhaps the most significant problem still unsolved by science.

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9780262513418 | Mit Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The question of consciousness is perhaps the most significant problem still unsolved by science.

Frontiers of Consciousness: The Chichele Lectures

Product Description: In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The Frontiers of Consciousness is a major interdisciplinary exploration of consciousness. The book stems from the Chichele lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology...read more

By Martin Davies (editor)

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9780199233151 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences.

Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human

Product Description: It is a question that may seem, at once, simple yet profoundly complicated: What is consciousness? And from where in the body, or mind, does it arise? In his work, esteemed Harvard scholar Simeon Locke, M.D. brings us the debate over substance and source in consciousness, and offers what he sees as the resolution to this debate, with accessible text explaining the neurologist's thinking on how to define, measure and explain consciousness, from a variety of field's perspectives...read more

By Locke

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9780313350061 | 1 edition (Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2007), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: It is a question that may seem, at once, simple yet profoundly complicated: What is consciousness?

Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

Product Description: The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnosis tells us about a basic human capacity for altered experiences that is often overlooked in contemporary western societies...read more

By Graham A. Jamieson (editor)

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9780198569794 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 19, 2007), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness.

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9780198569800 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 15, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness.

The Neuropsychiatry of Consciousness

Product Description: The aim of this book is to illustrate the state of the art on the scientific exploration of the cerebral bases of consciousness, through the presentation of exemplar neurological and psychiatric disorders affecting consciousness. These include sleep problems, drug-induced anaesthesia, coma and vegetative states, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric disassociative disorders...read more

By Andrea E. Cavanna and Francesco Monaco

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9781600218606 | 1 edition (Nova Biomedical, January 31, 2007), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The aim of this book is to illustrate the state of the art on the scientific exploration of the cerebral bases of consciousness, through the presentation of exemplar neurological and psychiatric disorders affecting consciousness.

The Physiological Basis And Quantum Versions of Memory And Consciousness

Product Description: This book arose out of a concern of a lack of understanding of the physiological processes which underlie consciousness. Knowledge related to the origin of consciousness is essential to many disciplines with an interest in human behavior, but because brain damage often produces impaired consciousness, it is especially important to neurologists, neurosurgeons and psychologists in managing patients...read more

By Arthur James Hudson

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9780773457461 | 1 edition (Edwin Mellen Pr, July 20, 2006), cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This book arose out of a concern of a lack of understanding of the physiological processes which underlie consciousness.

Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

Product Description: How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages...read more

By Gerald M. Edelman

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9780300102291 | Yale Univ Pr, March 31, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions?

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9780300107616 | Yale Univ Pr, May 10, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions?

The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

Product Description: Consciousness is one of science’s last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? In The Quest for Consciousness, Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch explores the biological basis of the subjective mind in animals and people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christof Koch

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9780974707709 | Roberts & Co, March 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Consciousness is one of science’s last great unsolved mysteries.

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Product Description: Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bernard J. Baars (editor), William P. Banks (editor) and James B. Newman (editor)

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9780262024969 | Bradford Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition.

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9780262523028 | Bradford Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition.

Consciousness Evolving

Product Description: An adequate understanding of the evolution of consciousness presupposes an adequate understanding of evolution, on the one hand, and of consciousness, on the other. This is a collection on the past, present and future of consciousness which seeks to contribute to the understanding of some of the most important conceptual problems of our time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James H. Fetzer (editor)

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9781588111081 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 1, 2002, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: An adequate understanding of the evolution of consciousness presupposes an adequate understanding of evolution, on the one hand, and of consciousness, on the other.

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

Amazon.com Review: Emily Dickinson wrote "The Brain--is wider than the Sky," and who can argue with that? Quoted by Nobel-winning scientist Gerald M. Edelman and his Neurosciences Institute colleague Giulio Tononi in A Universe of Consciousness, Miss Emily neatly explains the problem of conscious awareness, then ducks out of the way as the two scientists get to work solving it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

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9780465013760 | Basic Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Examines how consciousness can affect thought process in relation to understanding language, thought, and emotion.

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9780465013777 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, February 27, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

Understanding Consciousness: Its Function and Brain Processes

Product Description: `This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff's characteristic clarity and precision. It says far more than other books four times the size of this admirably concise volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerd Sommerhoff

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9780761967743 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 13, 2000, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: `This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff's characteristic clarity and precision.

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9780761967750 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 13, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: `This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff's characteristic clarity and precision.

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Antonio R. Damasio

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9780151003693 | 1 edition (Harcourt, September 1, 1999), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self

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9780156010757 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self.

Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism

Product Description: This book addresses some of the most fundamental and troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between the realms of Western science and religion for centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Patricia Smith Churchland, Dalai Lama XIV, Zara Houshmand (editor), Robert B. Livingston (editor), Thupten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace (editor)

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9781559391276 | Snow Lion Pubns, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This book addresses some of the most fundamental and troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between the realms of Western science and religion for centuries.

Consciousness and Human Identity

Product Description: An examination of whether or not the nature of consciousness and human identify can be explained using scientific methodology and neurobiological technology. Until recently, the vast complexity of the brain has kept researchers from tackling the thorny topic of consciousness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Cornwell (editor)

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9780198503231 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: An examination of whether or not the nature of consciousness and human identify can be explained using scientific methodology and neurobiological technology.

Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness

Product Description: How do our personalities and mental processes, our "states of consciousness", derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg? How can mere molecules constitute an idea or emotion? Some of the most important questions we can ask are about our own consciousness...read more

By Susan A. Greenfield

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9780788157738 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: How do our personalities and mental processes, our "states of consciousness", derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg?

9780716727231 | W H Freeman & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How do our personalities and mental processes, our "states of consciousness", derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg?

The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind

A neurophysiologist provides familiar examples to illustrate his theories about the relationship between complex mental states and electrochemical events in the brain, linking human chemical systems to emotions, dreams, and memory. 15,000 first printing.

By J. Allan Hobson

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9780316367547 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A neurophysiologist provides familiar examples to illustrate his theories about the relationship between compex mental states and electrochemical events in the brain, linking human chemical systems to emotions, dreams, and memory

The Walls of Plato's Cave: The Science and Philosophy of

Product Description: This treatise presents a new scientific theory of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. It is based on a comprehensive review of neuroscience, cognitive science, introspectionist psychology, clinical neurology, philosophy and the cosmology of space and time...read more

By John R. Smythies

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9781856288828 | Avebury, October 1, 1994, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: This treatise presents a new scientific theory of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain.

Brain, Symbol & Experience: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Human Consciousness

Product Description: This study describes the relationships of the brain, consciousness and symbolic culture in an effort to synthesize various theories of consciousness. The mental and physical aspects of consciousness are then explored.

By Eugene G. D'Aquili, Charles D. Laughlin and John McManus

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9780231081399 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: This study describes the relationships of the brain, consciousness and symbolic culture in an effort to synthesize various theories of consciousness.

Life, Brain, and Consciousness: New Perceptions Through Targeted Systems Analysis

Product Description: The relation between mind and brain can never be understood by science until the nature of consciousness and self-consciousness is clearly perceived as specific system-properties. In this volume the author tackles this problem in a rigorous analysis which begins with the general dynamics of living systems and leads the reader step-by-step towards firm conclusions about the physical processes of consciousness and the main categories of mental events...read more

By Gerd Sommerhoff

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9780444884367 | North-Holland, March 1, 1990, cover price $182.25 | About this edition: The relation between mind and brain can never be understood by science until the nature of consciousness and self-consciousness is clearly perceived as specific system-properties.

Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness

Product Description: A genuine understanding of how mental states arise from the structure and function of the brain would be, as William James declared in 1892, ”the scientific achievement before which all past achievements would pale.” Can a comprehensive biological theory of consciousness be constructed in 1990? Any attempt has to reconcile evidence garnered from such diverse fields as developmental and evolutionary biology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerald M. Edelman

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9780465069101 | Basic Books, March 7, 1990, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A genuine understanding of how mental states arise from the structure and function of the brain would be, as William James declared in 1892, ”the scientific achievement before which all past achievements would pale.

The Conscious Mind: A Developmental Theory

By A. J. Malerstein

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9780898852738 | Human Sciences Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $32.95

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