Being and becoming

Being and becoming

A guide to act in the theatre of existence

Nenadovic, Vera; Perez Velazquez, Jose Luis

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

08/2021

221

Mole

Inglês

9783030782634

15 a 20 dias

367

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Part I The Neuroscience Perspective - Where is my self?



1. The emergence of the self



1.1 Perception is everything



1.2 The usefulness of brains



1.3 Cognition without a brain: the "thinking" slime mould



1.4 A brief tour through the brain, for the non-specialist tourist



1.5 The cognitive powers of a worm



1.6 On the essence of selves: properties are all we perceive



1.7 The personal identity of animals: a self through the looking glass 1.7.1 The mirror test



1.8 Of animals and babies: the development of self-awareness in humans



1.8.1. The body in the brain



1.8.2 Our starting consciousness in our early times







2. The origins and the fallacy of a central commander in the brain: the emergence of agency and the demise of the concept of free will



2.1 Incorrect body perceptions: illusions of ownership and out of body experience



2.1.1. The mind out of the body -out of body experiences



2.1.2. A mini science project: elucidating the intriguing phenomenon of OBEs in blind individuals



2.2 Free will, or what is free in that will



2.2.1 The making of choices - In search of the last ventriloquist



2.2.2 The will in epileptic patients -what seizures reveal about volition



Postscript to section 2







3. The strange world of split brain patients: in search of the interpreter of our



actions



3.1 Closing the coffin of free-will







4. Dissociative identity disorders. Are multiple personalities ever lonely, or, can a



psychiatrist charge twice a person with dual personality?







5. The enduring self, or how to annihilate the self



6. A recipe for high cognition: is consciousness and self-awareness a matter of numbers? 7. Demystifying consciousness



7.1 On emergence



7.1.1. A criticism and a reply



7.2 Perception is personal -The essence and source of the mystery







Postscript to part I











Part II The Biophysics perspective - What is my life?



8. The Biophysics perspective - What is my life?



8.1 Preparing to cook life



8.1.1 Global regularity from local mess - The beginnings of the living



8.1.2 Noisy surroundings: when noise really makes sense



8.1.3 A fluctuating world







9. Let there be life



9.1 Molecular crowding: a tale of the most probable



9.2 Biological compartmentalization -Good borders make good neighbours



9.3 Clarifying the entropic fallacy



9.3.1 And furthermore, clarifying other closest relatives of entropy



9.4 And yet another fallacy: (wo)man and machine



9.5 The dance of the genes







10. The special ones



11. The enduring life



12. And why there is something instead of nothing







Postscript to part II







Part III The philosophical perspective - How do I experience reality?



13. The self and consciousness throughout history



14. The power of contemplation -Explorations on the self and consciousness in the Buddhist tradition



15. Shrinking the self



16. Naturalising death -The ultimate becoming



17. Law and Neuroscience: the impact of brain research on criminal justice







Postscript to part III







Final conclusions
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Consciousness;self-awareness;life;biophysics;philosophy;free will;meaning of life;sense of personal identity