Science and The Primacy of Consciousness
Intimation of a 21st Century Revolution
A book of readings in Consciousness studies
Edited by Richard L. Amoroso, Rui Antunes, Claudia Coelho,
Miguel Farias, Ana Leite, Pedro Soares
This book brings together several perspectives that reflect the way
consciousness has turned
into a primary topic of interest for contemporary science, with
potential
to condition its process of re-vision
and evolution. In its chapters , we find fundamental questions,
such as "What are the processes, properties
and nature of consciousness', discussed from different and often
non-convergent
perspectives.
An effort was made to integrate an array of positions as broad as
possible,
giving particular
emphasis to authors whose propositions are frequently regarded as
polemic
by their peers, and may
precipitate a change in the current paradigm of consciousness studies,
if only moved from outsiders into
accepted status by the majority of the scientific community.
Indeed, at this point, albeit the impressive
evolution it its study, there are more unresolved than definite answers
to the questions
consciousness can pose at all levels, whether the neurological,
psychological
or metaphysical.
Includes articles by Karl Pribram, Arne Friemuth
Peterson,
George A. Christos,
Andrew Lohrey, Georg Franck, Earl R. Mac Cormac, Mihai
Draganescu,
Erich Harth, Bill Potter Emmanuel Ransford, Henry
Swift,
Henry P. Stapp,
Richard L. Amoroso, Evan Harris Walker, Amit
Goswami,
Goro Kato,
Daniele C. Struppa, Attila Grandpierre, Menas Kafatos,
Stansilov Grof, Edmond Chouinard,
Rupert Sheldrake, Benny Shanon Matjaz Gams, Ben
Goertzel,
Mitja Perus, Francisco Di Biase,
Mario Sergio F. Rocha, Jonathan Reams, Deaniel W.
Miller,
Charles Berner, Catherine Draut,
J.A. Waterworth, Fred Alan Wolf, and Stan Tenen.
Paperback, 445 pages. Published by The Noetic Press, Inc.
$34.95