Titlebook: Brain, Self and Consciousness; Explaining the Consp Sangeetha Menon Book 2014 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclus

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Martin Kutrib,Matthias Wendlandtive events and understood within the framework of neuroscience? Another pertinent issue that is discussed currently is the ability of emotions to be part of a decision-making process by contributing to the cognitive deciders. Do emotions influence our cognitive capacities and rational processes?

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Brain and the Self, emotions to consciousness. And, brain is the biological organ that is often treated as an agent and director of the body which guides the working of sensation, emotion and consciousness. When on one side the human behaviours, attitudes and emotional capacities are intricately dependent on the neura

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Beginnings: Biological and Philosophical Accounts of Consciousness,ers and synapses across insects, fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals led to the emergence of a superior capability called consciousness in humans is a question that has persisted for many centuries. This chapter gives a profile of brain’s neural structure and its functional organization in the backg

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The Not-So-Rigid Brain: Philosophical Riddles and Experiential Ironies,ur interactions and life experiences. Changes in brain connections and the neurochemical nexus influence cognitive skills, emotional valences, memory and mental functioning. The plasticity of the brain is accompanied by yet another enigma—that the self is somehow able to make sense of the neural cha

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Body-Sense and Self-Sense: Why is Minimalism Insufficient?,y self-sense? What are body-sense and self-sense? Are the self-sense and the body-sense distinct senses? A dominant approach inspired by Aristotelian thinking is that the self-sense is the body-sense. Who I am is closely tied to my embodied existence. I cannot sense my-self without the accompanying

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Boundaries of Self: Displacement, Meaning and Purpose,e in neuropsychiatric disorders. Our experiences tell us that the boundaries of the self-sense are flexible contributing to better or worse existences. The psychiatrically and neurologically challenged self finds it difficult to sustain oneself. But in spite of the oddities and differences, in and t

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Being and Wellbeing: You, Me and Our Free Will,ing indicates that the self which we possess and cherish is somehow influenced by beliefs, hopes, attitudes, values, etc. We seek our wellbeing through the acts of choice-making, and exercise of free will. In this Chapter, I discuss the relation between the being and wellbeing of the self, and how i

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Beyond the Brain: The Final Frontiers of Consciousness,. The central puzzle that consciousness studies presents to us is the existence of the evading agent and the enjoyer in and behind the experience. How is the subjective intimacy of the self and experience created by an organ that is directed by neurochemical mechanisms? Neuroscience employs brain im