Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Preface -- The Story of Consciousness -- The Search for Consciousness in the Brain -- Attention and Consciousness: Fused or Independent? -- Past & Current Neural Models of Consciousness -- The Control Nature of Attention -- The Full CODAM Model -- The Owner and CODAM -- Does I Really Exist? -- Does the Corollary Discharge of Attention Exist? -- Understanding Mental Diseases -- The Escape from Life through Meditation.- The Evolution of Human Consciousness -- Animal Consciousness -- Understanding Consciousness and Emotions -- Solving the Mind-Body Problem through CODAM -- Is there Free Will in CODAM? -- Beyond Consciousness?.

This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease (especially schizophrenia) and on meditative states (including drug-induced states of mind). Solving the Mind-Body Problem bridges the gap that exists between philosophers of mind and the neuroscience community, allowing the enormous weight of theorizing on the nature of mind to be brought to earth and put under the probing gaze of the scientific facts of life and mind.