In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.

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Ca’a la Gra, Contra, Switzerland

John C. Eccles

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Book Title: How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN
Authors: John C. Eccles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49224-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-49226-6Published: 09 April 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-49224-2Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 216
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

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