Section 1 opens up fundamental worldview issues, first discussing
implications of our world's totally-holarchic, open-ended
substructure, then explaining why we should use the principle of
parsimony not only conventionally but also to banish needless and
overly broad simplifications-and how this has relevance to
limitations of reductionist science. Section 2 explores evocative
questions about consciousness from a monist perspective, pointing
towards observables that are not object-like and kinds of change
that are non-mechanical. This leads toward understanding
consciousness as meta-change identical to creation. The essays (i)
propose that what's re-organizing itself is the organism's dynamic
(predictive) internal model of itself-in-its-world; (ii) examine
reasons why this "continuous creation" (CC) metatheory of
consciousness has generally not been "self-evident;" then (iii)
elaborate the means by which conscious re-organizing is postulated
to work; (iv) begin to discuss implications (for mind evolution and
for entropy-levels in life-systems) of this view of consciousness;
and (v) end with neurophysiological speculations. Section 3 begins
with discussion of the consciousness 'hard' problem in relation to
CC metatheory; then shows how that metatheory relates to two other
theories of consciousness; and finishes by presenting the
metatheory's social and ethical implications.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
