Main description:

This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease (especially schizophrenia) and on meditative states (including drug-induced states of mind). Solving the Mind-Body Problem bridges the gap that exists between philosophers of mind and the neuroscience community, allowing the enormous weight of theorizing on the nature of mind to be brought to earth and put under the probing gaze of the scientific facts of life and mind.

Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1 The Story of Consciousness
Chapter 2 The Search for Consciousness in the Brain
Chapter 3 Attention Versus Consciousness: Fused or Independent?
Chapter 4 Current Brain Based Models of Consciousness
Chapter 5 The Control Nature of Attention
Chapter 6 The Full CODAM Model
Chapter 7 The Owner, The Inner Self and CODAM
Chapter 8 Does 'I' Really Exist?
Chapter 9 Does the Corollary Discharger of Attention Exist?
Chapter 10 Understanding the Mental Disease of Schizophrenia
Chapter 11 The Escape from Life Through Meditation
Chapter 12 The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Chapter 13 Animal Consciousness
Chapter 14 Understanding Consciousness and Emotions
Chapter 15 Solving the Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 16 Is there Free Will in CODAM?
Chapter 17 Beyond CODAM?