On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, Phenomenological, and Transpersonal PerspectivesYale University Press, 01/01/1995 - 358 páginas This book pursues an inquiry into consciousness that ranges from ancient Greece to empirical neuropsychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. Harry Hunt begins by reviewing the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consciousness. He then presents competing views of consciousness in cognition, neurophysiology, and animal psychology, developing a view of perceptual awareness as the core of consciousness potentially shared across species. Hunt next brings together the separate strands of neo-realist approaches to perception and thought, the phenomenology of imagery and synesthesia, and cognitive theories of metaphor. He develops an original cognitive theory of mystical experience that combines Buddhist meditative descriptions of consciousness and Heidegger's sense of Being. In relating both of these to James J. Gibson's views on perception, he avoids the various "new age" supernaturalisms that so often blight the transpersonal literature. Other themes include the relation between consciousness and time; the common perceptual-metaphoric rooting of parallels between consciousness and modern physics; and the communal basis of transpersonal states as reflected in a sociology of mysticism and a reinterpretation of parapsychological research. |
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... perception Gibson's ambient optic array / Two systems of perception : Gibson's " direct perception " and " recognition " / Consciousness and world in Gibson , Heidegger , and Leibnitz 4 Consciousness as Localized : Neural Zones of ...
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... Perception and the arrow ( s ) of time : Pulsations and flow , appearance and disappearance The co - dependent ... Perception Consciousness and quantum : Some competing versions Physics and consciousness : Metaphor and the fluctuating ...
... Perception and the arrow ( s ) of time : Pulsations and flow , appearance and disappearance The co - dependent ... Perception Consciousness and quantum : Some competing versions Physics and consciousness : Metaphor and the fluctuating ...
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Índice
CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONTEXT PSYCHOLOGY PHILOSOPHY CULTURE | 1 |
Cognition and Consciousness | 26 |
HOW MUCH CAN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY TELL | 49 |
Neural Zones of Convergence and Consciousness Awareness Systems | 73 |
The Emergence of Primary Sentience in Protozoa and SelfReferential | 93 |
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS | 113 |
THE IMAGISTIC BASES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ORDINARY AND NONORDINARY CONTEMPORARY | 139 |
Phenomenology and Some Limitations of Laboratory Research | 161 |
TRANSPERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND THE REFLEXIVITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE | 197 |
A Logos of Sentience | 220 |
CONSCIOUSNESS AND REALITY | 239 |
Physics Consciousness and the Primacy of Perception | 257 |
CONCLUDING SOCIOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT | 277 |
Notes | 297 |
References | 313 |
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