Ontology of Consciousness: Percipient Action

by Robert A.F. Thurman

Book Overview

Scholars from many different disciplines examine consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology research and cell biophysics laboratories to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in a volume that extends consciousness studies beyond the limits of current neuroscience research. The "hard problem" of today's consciousness studies is subjective experience: understanding why some brain processing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731843
• ISBN13: 9780262731843
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 638 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher