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 Director, Center for Consciousness Studies
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
This book presents a rich, broad-ranging overview of contemporary research and scholarship into consciousness and the self.... It is ... to their credit that the editors have assembled a highly stimulating set of scholars whose expertise cover all the relevant areas. I strongly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in understanding the directions in which contemporary thinking about the nature of consciousness is headed.
B. Les Lancaster
Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
This volume is a collection of 23 essays that contribute to the emerging discipline of consciousness studies with particular focus on the concept of the self. The essays together argue that to understand consciousness is to understand the self that beholds consciousness. Two broad issues are addressed in the volume: the place of the self in the lives of humans and nonhuman primates; and the interrelations between the self and consciousness, which contribute to the understanding of cognitive functions, awareness, free will, nature of reality, and the complex experiential and behavioural attributes of consciousness. The book presents cutting-edge and original work from well-known authors and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, behavioural sciences and physics. This is a pioneering attempt to present to the reader multiple ways of conceptualizing and thus understanding the relation between consciousness and self in a nuanced manner.

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Menon, Sangeetha; Sinha, Anindya; Sreekantan, B. V.

Springer, India, Private Ltd

Springer London, Limited

Springer Nature, New Delhi, 2014

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Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Conscious Agency and the Preconscious/Unconscious Self....Pages 11-25
Finding the Self and Losing the Ego in the State of Pure Consciousness....Pages 27-40
Converging on the Self: Western Philosophy, Eastern Meditation and Scientific Research....Pages 41-50
The Self as Organizer....Pages 51-64
Reconceptualizing the Separative Self....Pages 65-72
Consciousness, Memory and Dreams in Kashyapa Samhita ....Pages 73-79
Experientially Acquired Knowledge of the Self in a Nonhuman Primate....Pages 81-99
Executive Functions as a Path to Understanding Nonhuman Consciousness: Looking Under the Light....Pages 101-116
Self, Identity and Culture....Pages 117-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Consciousness and First-Person Phenomenology: First Steps Towards an Experiential Phenomenological Writing and Reading (EWR)....Pages 127-149
Self and Neurophenomenology: Gift and Responsibility....Pages 151-163
The Inside-Outside Story of Consciousness: A Phenomenological Exploration....Pages 165-175
Self and Empathy....Pages 177-192
Adapted Self in the Context of Disability: An Ecological, Embodied Perspective....Pages 193-207
Self and Transformative Experiences: Three Indian Philosophers on Consciousness....Pages 209-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Soul, Neurons, Particles or Mind-at-Large ? Exploring the Boundaries of the Self....Pages 225-242
Is the Source of Awareness Present in the Quantum Vacuum?....Pages 243-252
Cosmological Considerations Relevant to the Origin of Consciousness....Pages 253-261
Reality and Consciousness: Is Quantum Biology the Future of Life Sciences?....Pages 263-278
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Human Brain Is a Coherent State of the Mind....Pages 279-293
Consciousness, Functional Geometry and Internal Representation....Pages 295-306
Consciousness, Libertarian Free Will and Quantum Randomness....Pages 307-323
Back Matter....Pages 325-328

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 Director, Center for Consciousness Studies The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona This book presents a rich, broad-ranging overview of contemporary research and scholarship into consciousness and the self.... It is ... to their credit that the editors have assembled a highly stimulating set of scholars whose expertise cover all the relevant areas. I strongly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in understanding the directions in which contemporary thinking about the nature of consciousness is headed. B. Les Lancaster Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology Liverpool John Moores University, UK This volume is a collection of 17 essays that contribute to the emerging discipline of consciousness studies with particular focus on the concept of the self. The essays together argue that to understand consciousness is to understand the self that beholds consciousness. Two broad issues are addressed in the volume: the place of the self in the lives of humans and nonhuman primates; and the interrelations between the self and consciousness, which contribute to the understanding of cognitive functions, awareness, free will, nature of reality, and the complex experiential and behavioural attributes of consciousness. The book presents cutting-edge and original work from well-known authors and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, behavioural sciences and physics. This is a pioneering attempt to present to the reader multiple ways of conceptualizing and thus understanding the relation between consciousness and self in a nuanced manner

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