Neurowaves: brain, time, and consciousness

Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain's inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains - neurowaves - is the basis of our mental exper...

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1. Verfasser: Northoff, Georg 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain's inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains - neurowaves - is the basis of our mental experiences of the world.
Neurowaves: Brain, Time, and Consciousness -- Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Brain's Mental Surfing -- Time in Ancient Greece: Chronos and Kairos -- Time in Classical Physics: The Container View -- Time in Contemporary Physics: The Construction View -- Lessons from Ancient China: From Brain Dynamic to Mind Dynamic -- Mental Features: The World-Brain Relation -- Mental Features Are Dynamic Features -- The Structure of This Volume -- Time beyond Humans - From Other Species over Artificial Intelligence to the Mind-Body Problem -- The Self as Wave -- Chapter 1: Brain Time -- Introduction -- The Container versus Construction View of Time -- The Brain's Inner Time -- The Brain's Inner Time: Frequencies and Temporal Windows -- The Brain's Inner Time: Scale-Free Activity -- From the Brain's Inner Time to the World's Inner Time -- Convergence of Time and Space -- The Brain's Inner Space: Spatial Structure of the Brain's Spontaneous Activity -- The Brain's Inner Space: Convergence of Spatial Extension with Temporal Duration -- The Active Brain and Its Inner Time -- A Passive Model of the Brain: Perception and Cognition of Outer Time -- An Active Model of Brain: Spontaneous Activity -- From Brain to Mind: Inner Time as Their Common Currency -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: From Brain Time to World Time -- Introduction -- Brain Time: Scale-Free Dynamic and Consciousness -- Breakdown of Scale-Free Dynamic -- Breakdown of Consciousness -- Extension of Consciousness -- Brain + World = Consciousness -- "Self-Similarity" of the World and the Brain -- The Correlated Walk of the World and the Brain -- Mental Surfing on the World's Waves -- "Locked in the World" versus "Locked out of the World" -- From World to Brain: Consciousness Extends beyond Brain and Body -- Locked in the Body but Not Locked out of the World.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (127 Seiten)
ISBN:9780228018179
9780228018186
DOI:10.1515/9780228018179

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