Ontology of Consciousness. Percipient Action

Ontology of Consciousness. Percipient Action

Ontology of Consciousness. Percipient Action

Editorial: MIT

Pàgines: 656

Any: 2008

EAN: 9780262731843

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The "hard problem" of today´s consciousness studies is subjective experience: understanding why some brain processing is accompanied by an experienced inner life. Recent scientific advances offer insights for understanding the physiological and chemical phenomenology of consciousness. But by leaving aside the internal experiential nature of consciousness in favor of mapping neural activity, such science leaves many questions unanswered. In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines--from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought--go beyond these limits of current neuroscience research to explore insights offered by other intellectual approaches to consciousness. These scholars focus their attention on such philosophical approaches to consciousness as Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, North American Indian insights, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization, and the Byzantine Empire. Some draw on artifacts and ethnographic data to make their point. Others translate cultural concepts of consciousness into modern scientific language using models and mathematical mappings. Many consider individual experiences of sentience and existence, as seen in African communalism, Hindi psychology, Zen Buddhism, Indian vibhuti phenomena, existentialism, philosophical realism, and modern psychiatry. Some reveal current views and conundrums in neurobiology to comprehend sentient intellection.

Contributors: Karim Akerma, Matthijs Cornelissen, Antoine Courban, Mario Crocco, Christian de Quincey, Thomas B. Fowler, Erlendur Haraldsson, David J. Hufford, Pavel B. Ivanov, Heinz Kimmerle, Stanley Krippner, Armand J. Labbé, James Maffie, Hubert Markl, Graham Parkes, Michael Polemis, E Richard Sorenson, Mircea Steriade, Thomas Szasz, Mariela Szirko, Robert A. F. Thurman, Edith L. B. Turner, Julia Watkin, and Helmut Wautischer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I Expanding the Ontological Matrix 1
1 The Emptying of Ontology
The Tibetan Tantric View E. Richard Sorenson 5
2 The Soul and Communication between Souls Edith L. B. Turner 79
3 Consciousness and Reality in Nahua Thought in the Era of the Conquest James Maffie 97
4 Pre-Columbian Artistic Expressions of Indigenous Concepts of Soul in Cross-Cultural Perspective Armand J. Labbé 127
5 Why One Is Not Another The Brain-Mind Problem in Byzantine Culture Antoine Courban 163
6 Soul and Paideia On the Philosophical Value of a Dialectical Relation Michael Polemis 193
II Localizing Subjective Action 205
7 Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind Hubert Markl 209 8 Consciousness Cannot Be Explained in Terms of Specific Neuronal Types and Circumscribed Neuronal Networks Mircea Steriade 231
9 Consciousness as a Relation between Material Bodies Pavel B. Ivanov 241
10 The Priority of Local Observation and Local Interpretation in Evaluating the "Spirit Hypothesis" David J. Hufford 273
11 Effects of Relativistic Motions in the Brain and Their Physiological Relevance Mariela Szirko 313
12 A Palindrome Conscious Living Creatures as Instruments of Nature; Nature as an Instrument of Conscious Living Creatures Mario Crocco 359
III Experience of Existence 395
13 The Evolution of Consciousness in Sri Aurobindo´s Cosmopsychology Matthijs Cornelissen 399
14 An Existentialist Understanding of Consciousness Julia Watkin 429
15 Toward an Ontology of Consciousness with Nicolai Hartmann and Hans Jonas Karim Akerma 449
16 Thinking Like a Stone Learning from the Zen Rock Garden Graham Parkes 475
17 The Concept of Person in African Thought A Dialogue between African and Western Philosophies Heinz Kimmerle 507
18 Of Indian God-Men and Miracle-Makers The Case of Sathya Sai Baba Erlendur Haraldsson 525
19 Sentient Intelligence Consciousness and Knowing in the Philosophy of Xavier Zubiri Thomas B. Fowler 549
20 Ontology of Consciousness Reflections on Human Nature Thomas Szasz 575
Epilogue
Christian de Quincey 587
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