Knowing, being, and doing : new foundations for consciousness studies /
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| Author / Creator: | Clarke, C. J. S. (Christopher James Seaton), 1946-2019 author. |
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| Imprint: | Exeter : Imprint Academic, [2013] |
| Description: | 216 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9342811 |
Table of Contents:
- Introuction
- 1. Defining Consciousness
- 1.1. The idea of consciousness
- 1.2. The Origins of consciousness studies
- 1.3. The development of consciousness studies
- 1.4. Words
- 1.5. Self-consciousness
- 1.6. The seat of Consciousness
- 1.7. Consciousness and the will
- 1.8. Subjective explorations of consciousness
- 2. Quantum
- 2.1. Interpreting Quantum theory
- 2.2. Certain uncertainty
- 2.3. What is quantum theory about?
- 2.4. But what about "The Field"?
- 2.5. Measurement and consciousness
- 2.6. Entanglement (spooky action at a distance)
- 2.7. Quantum theory today
- 2.8. Quantum cosmology
- 2.9. Histories: collapse without collapse
- 2.10. Selection in quantum consmology
- 2.11. Between knowing and being
- 3. The Mind and its Logics: Knowing
- 3.1. The reinvention of knowing
- 3.2. The start of the separation: the language of duality
- 3.3. The rise of the propositional
- 3.4. Logic and mind
- 3.5. Truth and context
- 4. The Reinvention of Quantum Logic
- 4.1. Birkhoff-von Neumann Logic
- 4.2. Context and Degrees of truth
- 4.3. Superposition
- 5. What Does Consciousness Do?p101
- 5.1. Where the (quantum) buck stops
- 5.2. The operation of consciousness
- 5.3. Epiphenomenalism and the will
- 5.4. Models of the action of consciousness
- 5.5. StappÆs model
- 5.6. Orchestrated Objective Reduction
- 5.7. Assertion
- 5.8. The choice of nature
- 5.9. What does consciousness do to consciousness?p127
- 6. What Things Are Conscious?p131
- 6.1. Chasing consciousness
- 6.2. A propositional view of panpsychism
- 6.3. Things
- 6.4. The cosmos
- 7. A New Programme for Consciousness Research
- 7.1. The central aim
- 7.2. The Pitfalls of the transliminal
- 7.3. Models of spirit
- 7.4. Praxis
- 7.5. Directions for the future
- 7.6. Wholeness
- References
- Endnotes
