Models of brain and mind : physical, computational and psychological approaches
Rahul Banerjee (Editor), B. K. Chakrabarti (Editor), Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kolkata, India)
The phenomenon of consciousness has always been a central question for philosophers and scientists. Emerging in the past decade are new approaches to the understanding of consciousness in a scientific light. This book presents a series of essays by leading thinkers giving an account of the current ideas prevalent in the scientific study of consciousness. The value of the book lies in the discussion of this interesting though complex subject from different points of view ranging from physics, computer science to the cognitive sciences. Reviews of controversial ideas related to the philosophy of mind from western and eastern sources including classical Indian first person methodologies provide a breadth of coverage that has seldom been attempted in a book before. Additionally, chapters relating to the new approaches in computational modelling of higher order cognitive function and consciousness are included. The book is of great value for established as well as young researchers from a wide cross-section of interdisciplinary scientific backgrounds, aiming to pursue research in this field, as well as an informed public. * Presents the latest developments in the scientific study of consciousness * Critically reviews different theoretical and philosophical explanations related to the subject * An important book for both students and researchers in designing research projects on consciousness
Progress in brain research, v. 168, volume 168
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) : illustrations (some color)
9780080557199, 9780444530509, 0080557198, 0444530509
191719820
How to separate conceptual issues from empirical ones in the study of consciousness / M. Velmans
The disunity of consciousness / S. Zeki
Consciousness: the radical plasticity thesis / A Cleeremans
A higher order Bayesian decision theory of consciousness / H.C. Lau
Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge / Z. Dienes
Interdependence of attention and consciousness / N. Srinivasan
Computational studies of consciousness / I. Aleksander, H. Morton
Identification of neuroanatomical substrates of set-shifting ability: evidence from patients with focal brain lesions / P. Mukhopadhyay [and others]
Thinking is believing / R. Kasturirangan
The emergence of mind and brain: an evolutionary, computational, and philosophical approach / K. Mainzer
Dynamic geometry, brain function modeling, and consciousness / S. Roy, R. Llinás
Understanding the mind of a worm: hierarchial network structure underlying nervous system function in C. elegans / N. Chatterjee, S. Sinha
Neural network modeling / B.K. Chakrabarti, A. Basu
Retinomorphic image processing / K. Ghosh, K. Bhaumik, S. Sarker
Modeling the sub-cellular signaling pathways involved in reinforcement learning at the striatum / S.M. Wanjerkhede, R.S. Bapi
Rythmic structure of Hindi and English: new insights from a computational analysis / T. Das, L. Singh, N.C. Singh
Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples / T. Metzinger
Vipassana: the Buddha's tool to probe mind and body / D.V. Chavan
Buddha and the bridging relations / R. Banerjee
Based on a workshop organized under the auspices of the Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, November 21-24, 2006