13. The Stream of Consciousness

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword xvii
5. Introduction xxiv
6. 1. Sherringtonian Alternatives—Two Fundamental Elements or Only One? 1
7. 2. To Consciousness the Brain Is Messenger 7
8. 3. Neuronal Action within the Brain 11
9. 4. Sensory and Voluntary-Motor Organization 14
10. 5. The Indispensable Substratum of Consciousness 18
11. 6. The Stream of Consciousness Electrically Reactivated 21
12. 7. Physiological Interpretation of an Epileptic Seizure 28
13. 8. An Early Conception of Memory Mechanisms — And a Late Conclusion 31
14. 9. The Interpretive Cortex 34
15. 10. An Automatic Sensory-Motor Mechanism 37
16. 11. Centrencephalic Integration and Coordination 44
17. 12. The Highest Brain-Mechanism 46
18. 13. The Stream of Consciousness 49
19. 14. Introspection by Patient and Surgeon 51
20. 15. Doubling of Awareness 55
21. 16. Brain as Computer, Mind as Programmer 57
22. 17. What the Automatic Mechanism Can Do 60
23. 18. Recapitulation 62
24. 19. Relationship of Mind to Brain—A Case Example 67
25. 20. Man's Being—A Choice Between Two Explanations 73
26. 21. Comprehensibility 83
27. Reflections 91
28. Afterthoughts by the Author 102
29. Bibliography 116
30. Index 119
31. Backmatter 126