
Brains Top Down : Is Top-Down Causation Challenging Neuroscience?.
Title:
Brains Top Down : Is Top-Down Causation Challenging Neuroscience?.
Author:
Auletta, Gennaro.
ISBN:
9789814412469
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (380 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Consciousness as a Top-Down Causal Agency G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod -- 1.1. BASIC NOTIONS -- 1.1.1. The Biological Self -- 1.1.2. The Concept of Emergence -- 1.1.3. Associationism and Life -- 1.1.4. Top-Down Causation -- 1.2. EVOLUTION, AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 1.2.1. What is the Brain for? -- 1.2.2. Mammals' Awareness -- 1.2.3. Primates as Highly Social Animals -- 1.3. HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS -- 1.3.1. The Problem of Human Consciousness -- 1.3.2. Unconscious and Conscious Processes -- 1.3.3. Symbolic Systems and Language -- 1.3.4. Unreflexive Consciousness -- 1.3.5. Reflexive Consciousness -- 1.4. INTENTIONS IN ACTION AND PRIOR INTENTIONS -- 1.4.1. Action and Consciousness -- 1.4.2. Plans and Prior Intentions -- 1.4.3. Failure and Systemic-Functional Reality of the Self -- 1.5. NEURAL ARCHITECTURE -- 1.6. SOCIETY OF MINDS -- REFERENCES -- 2. A Constraining Role of the Mind? G. Auletta -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 3. Neurons, Schemas, Persons and Society-Revisited M. A. Arbib -- 3.1. THE CHALLENGE -- 3.2. TWO-WAY REDUCTION -- 3.3. MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF THE CEREBELLUM IN PRISM ADAPTATION -- 3.4. OF NEURONS AND SCHEMAS -- 3.5. SOCIAL SCHEMAS -- 3.6. THE MIRROR SYSTEM HYPOTHESIS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE LANGUAGE-READY BRAIN -- 3.7. CONSCIOUSNESS, BRIEFLY -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 4. The Neural Basis of Consciousness and the Issue of Downward Causation Notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's Contribution -- DISCUSSION -- SUGGESTED READING -- 5. The Functional Role of Conscious Will in Voluntary Action: Cause or Consequence? A Position Paper M. Jeannerod -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. WILLING AND ACTING -- 5.3. THE TIMING OF ACTION AWARENESS -- 5.4. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONSCIOUS WILL -- 5.5. WHY CONSCIOUSNESS? THE VALIDATION PROCESS.
5.6. HOW DO WE GET THE SENSE OF BEING THE AUTHOR OF OUR ACTIONS? -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 6. Can the Self Be Considered a Cause? J. J. Sanguineti -- 6.1. METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES. A FIRST PHENOMENOLOGICAL LAYOUT -- 6.2. CAUSALITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD -- 6.3. SELF-ORGANIZATION3 -- 6.4. INTENTIONAL LIFE -- 6.5. THE UNITY OF SENSITIVE CONSCIOUSNESS -- 6.6. INTENTIONAL AND NATURAL LEVELS -- 6.7. ANIMAL ACTIONS AND THE ANIMAL SELF -- 6.8. HUMAN HIGHER LEVELS -- 6.9. THE SELF AS A CAUSE -- 6.10. LEVELS OF CAUSALITY -- 6.10.1. Bottom-Up Causation -- 6.10.2. Downward Causality12 -- 6.10.3. Horizontal Causality -- 6.10.4. Do Objects Cause? -- 6.11. CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 7. The Brain: A Highly Distributed Self-Organizing System. Who Has the Initiative? W. Singer -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. CURRENT BELIEFS -- 7.3. BRIDGES TO THE HUMANITIES -- 7.4. EPISTEMIC CONSIDERATIONS -- 7.5. THE ORIGIN OF IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE AND ITS ROLE IN COGNITION -- 7.6. EVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE -- 7.7. THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM -- 7.8. THE DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATION OF THE BRAIN AND WRONG INTUITIONS -- 7.9. DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATIONS -- 7.10. THE BINDING PROBLEM -- 7.11. THE ROLE OF OSCILLATORY SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY -- 7.12. THE NEURONAL CORRELATE OF CONSCIOUS PROCESSING -- 7.13. THE OUTLOOK -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 8. Two Views of Brain Functioning M. Raichle -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 9. Top-Down Causation in the Brain: Promises for Cognitive Psychology and Challenges for Research C. R. Crowell, J. R. Moskal, J. Burgdorf and J. Panksepp -- 9.1. INTRODUCTION -- 9.2. TDC: NOTABLE ASPECTS AND IMPORTANCE -- 9.2.1. Notable Aspects of TDC -- 9.2.2. Potential Importance of TDC -- 9.3. TDC: ITS POTENTIAL PROMISE FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- 9.3.1. Executive Control -- 9.3.2. Expectancy or Mental Set -- 9.3.3. Selective Attention -- 9.3.4. Voluntary Behavior.
9.4. TDC: THE CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH -- 9.4.1. Consciousness: Unitary or Multidimensional? -- 9.4.2. Conscious Intention and Voluntary Action -- 9.4.3. A Broader Context for Voluntary Action -- 9.4.4. TDC and Emergence -- 9.4.5. A Non-human Model System for TDC -- 9.5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 10. Consciousness and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis: From Bottom-Up to Top-Down Causation and Vice Versa G. Auletta and I. Colagè -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. GENOME, BRAIN AND DEVELOPMENT -- 10.3. NEURAL ARCHITECTURE IN MAMMALS -- 10.4. THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- 10.5. THE GLOBAL NEURONAL WORKSPACE HYPOTHESIS AND CONSCIOUS ACCESS -- 10.6. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE -- 10.7. PMC AND THE DEFAULT MODE -- 10.8. A LARGER CONTEXT -- 10.9. CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 11. Computation, Representation and Physicalism P. Jacob -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION: TOP-DOWN CAUSATION AND PHYSICALISM -- 11.2. METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM -- 11.3. CRTM: A VERSION OF METAPHYSICAL NATURALISM -- 11.4. CHOMSKY ON SEMANTIC EXTERNALISM -- 11.5. CHOMSKY ON PHYSICALISM -- 11.6. CONCLUSIONS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 12. Overall Discussion -- SESSION I -- SESSION II -- SESSION III -- SESSION IV -- SESSION V -- Postface M. Jeannerod (1935-2011): A Personal Note G. Rizzolatti -- Appendix I The History of this Volume -- Appendix II The Lyon Document: Top-Down Causation in Cognitive Science? -- A. TOP-DOWN CAUSATION: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- B. TOP-DOWN CAUSATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES -- C. FINAL SUGGESTIONS -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Written by an international team of leading experts in neuroscience, this book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains and society. A special feature of the book is pertinent presentations and lively discussions on the topic.The book provides the reader with invaluable information on what the latest research is in this field and will enable the reader to gain considerable amount of knowledge as well as hints for further enquiry.This is the first book on the topic of neuroscience and top-down causation, and is written at a level that will interest both academics and the general readers. The extensive and lively discussions included in the book offer the reader a clear idea of the research in this field, and what will emerge as the main trends.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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