Perspectives on Consciousness

Buch | Hardcover

410 Seiten

2021
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5361-9323-7 (ISBN)

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Perspectives on Consciousness bridges ancient views on consciousness with modern neuroscience, quantum physics and higher-dimensional mathematics, as well as real-world application to raising awareness of consciousness in teaching. Following a description of neurobiological approaches towards understanding the subjective nature of conscious experience in Chapter 1, including the enigma of qualia, the challenging dilemmas of understanding damaged consciousness following brain injury are reviewed in Chapter 2. The nature of qualia is taken up again in Chapter 3, which introduces a Qbit theory of consciousness based on inspirations and insights from quantum mechanics, biology, information theory and thermodynamics. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 bridge ancient and modern views on consciousness, ranging across ancient yet impressively sophisticated Buddhist understandings of perception, feeling and cognition (Chapter 4), the also ancient Jewish mystical tradition of the kabbalistic Zohar (Chapter 6), and insights into brain activity drawn from deep states of meditation (Chapter 5). Chapter 5 also includes a discussion of hierarchies of consciousness including likely interactions at the global-societal level with implications to understanding climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. Chapter 7 takes readers to the outer reaches of discussions on consciousness to introduce ideas of higher-dimensional structures, and the problem of understanding consciousness within mainstream physics, before the final Chapter 8 sets a refreshing and timely change of pace to consider the need to help children, and their teachers, develop a broader awareness of consciousness as part of life in the global "family." The book will be of interest to a general scientific audience, as well as those with specialized interests in neuroscience and consciousness studies, education and philosophy, as well as Buddhist and Kabbalistic spiritual traditions.

Preface; The Neurobiological Approach to Conscious Subjective Experience; Assessment of Consciousness after Brain Injury: A Prolonged Disorder of Diagnosis; The QBIT Theory of Consciousness; The Nature and Roles of Consciousness in Theravāda Buddhism; The Human Default Consciousness, Jhāna Consciousness, Gaia Consciousness and Some Thoughts on the COVID-19 Pandemic; The Faces of God: A Kabbalistic Myth and its Implications for Consciousness; Making Space and Time for Consciousness in Physics; Integration of Consciousness in Teaching and Learning; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.04.2021
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	1-5361-9323-2 / 1536193232
ISBN-13	978-1-5361-9323-7 / 9781536193237
Zustand	Neuware