Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Consciousness is the next stage of evolution
(Oded Maimon and Shulamith Kreitler)
The philosophical approach
Chapter 2. Towards a theory of awareness and of consciousness
(Joseph Agassi)
The historical-cultural approach
Chapter 3. Psychological evolution of consciousness
(Elfriede M. Bone)
The biological approach
Chapter 4. Consciousness: The perspective of evolutionary biology
(Karl Edlinger)
The anthropological approach
Chapter 5. Consciousness and Indigenous Healing Systems: between
Indigenous Perceptions and Neuroscience
(Diana Riboli)
The sociological approach
Chapter 6. Consciousness: Sociological Approaches
(Vasiliki Kantzara)
The experiential approaches
Chapter 7. Turning on the Light to see how the Darkness looks
(Susan Blackmore)
Chapter 8. Bodily Awareness, Consciousness and Modifications of Existential values in out-of-the Norm Experiences Values: the Transplanted Patients’ Perspectives
(Chantal Piot-Ziegler)
The spiritual approaches
Chapter 9. Introduction to the spiritual approaches: Interview with (Charles T. Tart)
Interviewers: Oded Maimon and Shulamith Kreitler
Chapter 10. Scientific and spiritual perspective of consciousness: An analytical interpretation
(Sanjay Srivasteva)
Chapter 11. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of mind: A
mutually interacting non-local dualistic systems (MINDS) approach
(Charles T. Tart)
The psychological approaches
Chapter 12. Cognitive effects of states of consciousness:
Do changes in states of consciousness affect judgments and
evaluations?
(Yuval Rotstein, Oded Maimon and Shulamith Kreitler)
Chapter 13. Consciousness and knowledge: The psychosemantic approach
(Shulamith Kreitler)
Chapter 14. Novelty, not integration: Finding the function of conscious awareness
(Liad Mudrik, Leon Y. Deouell, and Dominique Lamy)
Chapter 15. Why the mind works: The Emergence of consciousness from
mental dynamics
(Robin R. Vallacher and Jay L. Michaels)
The neuropsychological approaches
Chapter 16. Consciousness and paralysis
(Carolyn A. Ruf and Niels Birbaumer)
Chapter 17. What has TMS Taught us about the role of V1 in Conscious and Unconscious Processing?
(Dominique Lamy and Ziv Peremen)
Chapter 18. Neuroimaging Approaches to the Stream of Consciousness:
Problems lost and found
(M. Gruberger, E. Ben-Simon and T. Hendler)
Chapter 19. Neuronal Reflections
(Rafi Malach)
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The physical approaches
Chapter 20. A quantum physical perspective of consciousness
(Ron Kreitler)
Chapter 21. Super turing as a cognitive reality
(Hava Siegelmann)
Chapter 22. A novel Theory of Consciousness based on the irreducible Field Principle: The Concept of “geometrical feeling” leading to
Consciousness Definition
(Michael Lipkind)
Index