The Single-Neuron Theory

Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

Steven Sevush (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 299 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-81579-4 (ISBN)

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This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs. It suggests that conscious experience happens not at the whole brain level but at the level of individual nerve cells. The notion that the brain as a whole is sentient is an illusion created by the exquisite organization of the individually conscious neurons. Despite appearances to the contrary, conscious behavior that seems to be the product of a single macroscopic mind is actually the integrated output of a chorus of microscopic minds, each associated with an individual neuron. The result is a theory that revolutionizes our conception of who and what we are.

Steven Sevush is Emeritus Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Miami, USA. He has been a teacher, researcher, and clinician in behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry for over thirty years. His written works include The Single-Neuron Theory of Consciousness published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Mind/Brain Problem.- Chapter 2. Principles of Cortical Function.- Chapter 3. Perception.- Chapter 4. Memory.- Chapter 5. Feelings.- Chapter 6. The Split-Brain Paradigm.- Chapter 7. Frontal Convergence.- Chapter 8. Neuronal Networks.- Chapter 9. Information Processing within Neurons.- Chapter 10. Encoding Conscious Experience in Single Neurons.- Chapter 11. Quantum Consciousness.- Chapter 12. Implications and Speculations.

"I enjoyed reading this volume. ... I would certainly recommend this volume to my postgraduate students and to academic colleagues for the sheer provocative nature of the arguments being made alone. It was a refreshing read." (Jason J. Braithwaite, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (25), June, 2017)

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 299 p. 51 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
Schlagworte	Cognitive Psychology • Consciousness • Neurology • Neuroscience • philosophy of psychology
ISBN-10	3-319-81579-2 / 3319815792
ISBN-13	978-3-319-81579-4 / 9783319815794
Zustand	Neuware