The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind-Body to the World-Brain Problem

by Georg Northoff

An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features--a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem.

Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem--whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262038072
• ISBN13: 9780262038072
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher