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From August 25 - 28, 1978 a conference on averaged evoked po-
tentials was held at Konstanz, West Germany. Research on human
evoked potentials has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and a
series of international conferences have served to maintain com-
munication between active workers in the field. Among the organiza-
tions that have a tradition of supporting such mUlti-national com-
munication are the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific
Affairs Division, the u.s. Office of Naval Research and the German
Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). We have been
fortunate to have the support of all three. In the early stages of
planning, a committee was formed composed of Professors Rudolph
Cohen (Konstanz), Otto Creutzfeldt (Goettingen), John Desmedt
(Brussels), A.M. Halliday (London), Anthony Remond (Paris) and
Herbert Vaughan (New York). A call for papers was circulated as
widely as possible, and this committee carried out the difficult
task of selecting a limited number of participants from a large
number of excellent abstracts. At the same time Professor Cohen of
the University of Konstanz was generous enough to shoulder the task
of playing host to the conference. His thoughtful arrangements
contributed enormously to the comfort of the participants. He and
his colleagues also engi- neered an ideal ambience for sharing of
ideas and observations, while the University of Konstanz generously
provided audio-visual support.
Issues concerning the unity of minds, bodies and the world have
often recurred in the history of philosophy and, more recently, in
scientific models. Taking into account both the philosophical and
scientific knowledge about consciousness, this book presents and
discusses some theoretical guiding ideas for the science of
consciousness. The authors argue that, within this
interdisciplinary context, a consensus appears to be emerging
assuming that the conscious mind and the functioning brain are two
aspects of a complex system that interacts with the world. How can
this concept of reality - one that includes the existence of
consciousness - be approached both philosophically and
scientifically? The Unity of Mind, Brain and World is the result of
a three-year online discussion between the authors who present a
diversity of perspectives, tending towards a theoretical synthesis,
aimed to contribute to the insertion of this field of knowledge in
the academic curriculum.
Issues concerning the unity of minds, bodies and the world have
often recurred in the history of philosophy and, more recently, in
scientific models. Taking into account both the philosophical and
scientific knowledge about consciousness, this book presents and
discusses some theoretical guiding ideas for the science of
consciousness. The authors argue that, within this
interdisciplinary context, a consensus appears to be emerging
assuming that the conscious mind and the functioning brain are two
aspects of a complex system that interacts with the world. How can
this concept of reality - one that includes the existence of
consciousness - be approached both philosophically and
scientifically? The Unity of Mind, Brain and World is the result of
a three-year online discussion between the authors who present a
diversity of perspectives, tending towards a theoretical synthesis,
aimed to contribute to the insertion of this field of knowledge in
the academic curriculum.
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