The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

7. Inside the Brain Connectionism Selective Behavior Cognition The Primacy Of Connections The Neural Structure of the Brain Dominance Asymmetry The Life Of Neurons The Biorhythms Brain Waves Perception And Sensation Concepts And Memories Selection Processes Of The Brain Neural Darwinism A Brain in Transition Patterns And Brains The Selectional Mind Convergence Zones Phantoms in the Brain Mirror Neurons Synesthesia Somatic Mosaicism Neural Communication The Free Will of the Brain The Advent of the Brain: Encephalization Multiple brains: the Advent of Cognition Microgenesis The Triune Brain An Olfactory Brain The Purpose Of A Brain The Heat Engine Of The Body The Solipsistic Brain The Origins Of Brains Are Colors More Real Than Pain Brains are for Traveling and Chatting Beyond the brain

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books) Bachmann, Talis: MICROGENETIC APPROACH TO THE CONSCIOUS MIND (John Benjamins, 2000) Baum Eric: WHAT IS THOUGHT? (MIT Press, 2004) Brown, Jason: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988) Buck Ross: THE COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION (Guilford Press, 1984) Changeux, Jean-Pierre: L’HOMME NEURONAL (1983) Changeux, Jean-Pierre: ORIGINS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN (Oxford University Press, 1995) Churchland, Paul: ENGINE OF REASON (MIT Press, 1995) Damasio, Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995) Delgado, Jose: PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND (1969) Edelman, Gerald: NEURAL DARWINISM (Basic, 1987) Eichenbaum, Howard: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY (Oxford Univ Press, 2002) Finger, Stanley: MINDS BEHIND THE BRAIN (Oxford Univ Press, 2004) Foster Russell & Kreitzman Leon: RHYTHMS OF LIFE - THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS THAT CONTROL THE DAILY LIVES OF EVERY LIVING THING (Yale Univ Press, 205) Freeman, Walter: SOCIETIES OF BRAINS (Erlbaum, 1995) Gazzaniga, Michael: THE ETHICAL BRAIN (Univ of Chicago Press, 2005) Gazzaniga, Michael & LeDoux Joseph: INTEGRATED MIND (Plenum Press, 1978) Gisolfi, Carl & Mora Francisco: THE HOT BRAIN (MIT Press, 2000) Goertzel Ben: THE STRUCTURE OF INTELLIGENCE (1993) Goertzel, Ben: THE EVOLVING MIND (Gordon & Breach, 1993) Goldstein, Kurt: THE ORGANISM: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGY (USA Book, 1939) Hebb, Donald: THE ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR (1949) Ivry, Richard & Robertson, Lynn: THE TWO SIDES OF PERCEPTION (MIT Press, 1998) Hebb, Donald: THE ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR (John Wiley, 1949) Hull, Clark: PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOR (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1943) James, William: THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY (1890) Jerne, Niels: THE NATURAL-SELECTION THEORY OF ANTIBODY (1955) Joseph, Rhawn: NAKED NEURON (Plenum, 1993) Koehler, Wolfgang: INTELLIGENSPRUEFUNGEN AM MENSCHENAFFEN (1925) Lashley, Karl: BRAIN MECHANISMS AND INTELLIGENCE (Dover, 1963) Lavine, Robert: NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (Collamore, 1983) Lieberman, Philip: UNIQUELY HUMAN (Harvard Univ Press, 1992) Llinas, Rodolfo & Churchland Patricia: THE MIND-BRAIN CONTINUUM (MIT Press, 1996) MacLean, Paul: THE TRIUNE BRAIN IN EVOLUTION (Plenum Press, 1990) Miller, Geoffrey: THE MATING MIND (Doubleday, 2000) Nicolelis, Miguel: BEYOND BOUNDARIES (Henry Holt, 2011) Purves, Dale: NEURAL ACTIVITY AND THE GROWTH OF THE BRAIN (Cambridge Univ Press, 1994) Ramachandran, Vilayanur & Blakeslee, Sandra: PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN (Morrow, 1998) Rizzolati, Giacomo: MIRRORS IN THE BRAIN (Oxford Univ Press, 2008) Skinner, Burrhus: BEHAVIOR OF ORGANISMS (1938) Swanson, Larry: BRAIN ARCHITECTURE (Oxford Univ Press, 2002) Thorndike Edward: ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE (1911) Underwood Geoffrey: OXFORD GUIDE TO THE MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 2000) Valiant, Leslie: CIRCUITS OF THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 1994) Ramachandran, Vilayanur & Blakeslee, Sandra: PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN (Morrow, 1998) Young, John: A MODEL OF THE BRAIN (Clarendon Press, 1964) Zeki, Semir: A VISION OF THE BRAIN (Blackwell, 1993)