Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the mind-brain relationship. The approach to
the mind-brain relation arose largely out of efforts to explain the seeming unity and/or duality …

The conference that generated this volume focused upon brain and consciousness.
Consciousness is the major mental phenomenon discussed, and recent data from brain …

Challenges the assumption that the subjective phenomena of conscious experiences do not
exert any causal influence on the sequence of events in the physical brain process. A theory …

A traditional working hypothesis in neuroscience holds that a complete account of brain
function is possible, in principle, in strictly neurophysiological terms without invoking …

Many scholars interpret the close correlation between neuronal and mental phenomena as
causal in nature--with physiological events producing psychological states and processes …

Cognitive neuroscience has been driven by the idea that by reductionist analysis of
mechanisms within a solitary brain one can best understand how the human mind is …

The language of consciousness and that of brain function seem vastly different and
incommensurable ways of approaching human mental life. If we look at what we mean by …

The architecture of brain, consciousness, and behavioral processes is shown to be formally
similar in that all three may be conceived and depicted as Petri net patterned processes …

The relation between mind and brain can never be understood by science until the nature of
consciousness and self-consciousness is clearly perceived as specific system-properties. In …

The recent swing in psychology from behaviorism to a more subjective mentalist (or
cognitive) paradigm is interpreted to be more than a mere Zeitgeist phenomenon and to …