Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
This book brings together ancient spiritual wisdom and modern science and philosophy to address age-old questions regarding our existence, free will and the nature of conscious awareness.Stuart Hameroff MD Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Dir
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
Sangeetha Menon • Anindya Sinha • B.V. Sreekantan Editors
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
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Editors Sangeetha Menon School of Humanities National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, Karnataka India B.V. Sreekantan School of Humanities National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, Karnataka India
Anindya Sinha School of Natural and Engineering Sciences National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, Karnataka India Centre for Neuroscience Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Karnataka India Nature Conservation Foundation Mysore, Karnataka India
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Foreword
Consciousness is at once intimately familiar and deeply mysterious. Each of us knows what it is like to wake from a dreamless sleep to a continuous and continuously changing flow of conscious contents, including thoughts, visual images, emotions and the like; yet how these subjective phenom
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