On the Contexts of Things Human : An Integrative View of Brain, Consciousness, and Freedom of Will.
Title:
On the Contexts of Things Human : An Integrative View of Brain, Consciousness, and Freedom of Will.
Author:
MacGregor, Ronald J.
ISBN:
9789812773913
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Foreword -- List of Figures and Tables -- How People Behave in Situations They Don't Understand -- Ch 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1.1 Approach -- 1.2 Overview -- 1.3 Personal Proclivities -- 1.4 Terminology -- Endnotes -- PART A - AN INTEGRATIVE VIEW OF BRAIN AND CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE - THE INNER SENSIBILITIES -- Ch 2 An Integrative View of Brain and Conscious Experience -- 2.1 Individual Components of the Inner Sensibilities -- 2.2 Motivation and Inner Directive Causes, Energization -- 2.3 The Significance of the Valuative Representations -- 2.4 The Justification and Obscurities of Physical-Experiential Organicity -- Endnotes -- Ch 3 The Structure of Human Value -- 3.1 Five Root-Types of Value -- 3.2 Seven Domains of Value -- 3.3 The Peak Experiences -- 3.4 Comment -- Endnotes -- Ch 4 The Inner Sensibilities and Neurobiology -- 4.1 Higher Integrative Plasticity in Humans -- 4.2 Evolution and Brain Organization -- 4.3 Functional Topography of the Brain -- 4.4 Operational Organization of the Brain -- 4.5 Consciousness and Neurobiology -- 4.6 The Inner Sensibilities and Neurobiology -- Endnotes -- Ch 5 Consciousness and Theoretical Neuroscience -- 5.1 Introduction and Current Literature -- 5.2 Neural Networks: Gerald Edelman's view of Neuronal Group Dynamics and Consciousness -- 5.3 Integrative Neuroscience: Multilevel Hierarchy of Brain Physiology -- 5.4 Neurophysiology and Physical Processes -- 5.5 The Computer Metaphor for Brain Function -- Endnotes -- PART B - AN INTEGRATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF BRAIN AND CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE -- Ch 6 Consciousness, Physics, and Neurobiology -- 6.1 Texture, Interfaces, Energization, and Nature of Consciousness -- 6.2 Conscious Experience and Physical Science -- 6.3 Two Speculative Views of Quantum Mechanical Consciousness.
6.4 Placing Conscious Autonomy in Physical Science -- 6.5 Concluding Assessment of Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness -- 6.6 What Are We? Fundamental Views of the Nature of Consciousness -- Endnotes -- Ch 7 A Functional Theory of Consciousness and its Relations in Brain -- 7.1 A Functional Theory of Consciousness -- 7.2 Characteristics of The Theory -- 7.3 Localization of Consciousness in the Brain -- 7.4 Comments -- Endnotes -- Ch 8 Consciousness, Inner Constructions, and Language -- 8.1 The Range and Nature of Inner Constructions -- 8.2 Language -- 8.3 The Structural Nature and Place of Language in Neurobiology -- 8.4 The Conscious and Cognitive Use of Language -- Endnotes -- Ch 9 First Principles of Human Awareness and Apprehension -- 9.1 Pre-Analytic Apprehension and Inherent and Foundationo-Rational Knowing -- 9.2 First Principles of Human Existence and Apprehension -- 9.3 Energization and the Inner Sensibilities -- 9.4 The Contexts of Things Human -- 9.5 Further Remarks on Foundationo-Rational Knowing -- Endnotes -- Ch 10 Knowing and Neurobiology -- 10.1 Inner Patterns and Knowing -- 10.2 A Typology of Knowing -- 10.3 Knowing and Contemporary Thought -- Endnotes -- Ch 11 The Larger Nature and Setting of Value -- 11.1 The Essential Nature and Structure of Value -- 11.2 Ethics and Moral Philosophy -- 11.3 Wisdom -- 11.4 Placing the Values of the World's Religions -- Endnotes -- PART C - ON THE CONTEXTS OF THINGS HUMAN -- Ch 12 A Way of Placing Things -- 12.1 Qualities of This Map of the Whole of Things -- 12.2 Realms and Headings of the Map -- Endnotes -- Ch 13 The Universal Human Condition -- 13.1 Fundamentals of the Human Condition -- 13.2 Human Nature -- 13.3 Science and Nature -- 13.4 Worlds of Man -- 13.5 Broad Summary of the Human Condition -- Ch 14 Fountal Streams of Good and Evil.
14.1 Fountal Streams of Good and Evil -- 14.2 Empathy and Neural Development -- 14.3 Karma -- 14.4 The Good Life and Morality - Scope and Contexts -- 14.5 The Good Life and Morality - Pith -- 14.6 Morality, Darwinian Selection, Cultural Evolution, and Species Survival -- 14.7 Closing Comments -- Endnotes -- Ch 15 Contextual Energization Fields -- 15.1 Elemental Contextual Energization Fields -- 15.2 Fundamental Contextual Energizations of Personal Living -- Ch 16 Implications and Interpretations -- 16.1 Particular Implications of This Work -- 16.2 The Inner Sensibilities and Academic Philosophy -- 16.3 The Inner Sensibilities and The Human Potential -- 16.4 The Ambient Contexts of Things Human -- 16.5 Spirit, Metaphysics, Science, Religion, and the Inner Sensibilities -- Endnotes -- References -- Detailed Table of Contents.
Abstract:
This book is unique in expanding the boundaries of neuroscience, while remaining solidly grounded within it. In this, it outlines a new plateau of wider integrative understanding both within and beyond neuroscience. The book advances the view and implications of an integrated functional unity of consciousness and brain, inclusive of freedom of will. It reaches from first principles of human awareness and apprehension and the physical foundations of consciousness, through a structured integrative view of consciousness and the brain, to outlines of the ambient contextual influences of human living. Comprehensive overviews of brain theory and theoretical neuroscience are given. Fundamental brain functions of human apprehension, language, value, aesthetics, rational and extrarational knowing, biological primals, and adaptive integrations are seen to operate within such ambient influences as whole of nature, human plight, circumstances, personal life, good and evil, inner depths, worlds of man, and enlightenments. Prof Ronald MacGregor has published extensively in theoretical neuroscience since 1965, consistently advocating the foundationality of physiology and physical law in brain-mind function. His work has helped ground neuroelectric signaling within physical science and characterize the neuroelectric patterns of neurons and neural networks. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (545 KB). Contents: An Integrative View of Brain and Conscious Experience - The Inner Sensibilities: An Integrative View of the Brain and Conscious Experience; The Structure of Human Value; The Inner Sensibilities and Neurobiology; Consciousness and Theoretical Neuroscience; An Integrative Philosophy of Brain and Conscious Experience: Consciousness, Physics, and Neurobiology; A Functional Theory of Consciousness and Its Relations in Brain; Consciousness,
Inner Constructions, and Language; First Principles of Human Awareness and Apprehension; Knowing and Neurobiology; The Larger Nature and Setting of Value; On the Contexts of Things Human: A Way of Placing Things; The Universal Human Condition; Fountal Streams of Good and Evil; Contextual Energization Fields; Implications and Interpretations. Readership: Researchers, academics, students and professionals in neuroscience, medicine & life sciences, philosophy and philosophy of mind, engineering and bioengineering, physical sciences and computer science.
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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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