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INFINITY AND THE BRAIN: A UNIFIED THEORY OF MIND, MATTER By Glenn Dudley *Mint*
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- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Paragon House
- ISBN-10
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- ISBN
- 9781557788078
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Paragon House Publishers
ISBN-10
1557788073
ISBN-13
9781557788078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2010045
Product Key Features
Book Title
Infinity and the Brain : a Unified Theory of Mind, Matter, and God
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-053115
Reviews
"This is a fascinating and persuasive book, which, indirectly and among other things, includes an argument for a coming together of science and religion. It is written for both scientists and general readers, whether or not they have religious beliefs." --George Adelman Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
128/.2
Table Of Content
Contents PrefaceIntroduction Historical overview Theoretical premise: the universe is personalThe origin of an imageIntrospective cluesThere is no conflict between a personal and a mechanical universe Light and the illumination of self Definitions PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE . The Expectant Brain Mind and brain are neither equal nor separateA diagrammatic approachBehavior and infinity anticipationBlobs, qualia, and other mysteries of perception . From The Womb To The Tomb: The Search For Certainty Who or what actually sees an image? From small to big in the "now" of time Familiarity, novelty, and the natural desire for certainty . The Circadian Self The anticipatory nature of awareness foretells the periodicity of sleepWhich comes first, the self or its image? The probabilistic basis of sleep and dreams . Sexuality And The Universe Sexuality and the fetal nature of perceptionThe probabilistic basis of orgasmAn image is a symbolic castrationThe "sex-crazed" brain The thermodynamic basis of pain and pleasure A universal principle of fecundityThe law of privacy"OAGs," orgasm, and social visionPART II: THE NEUROANATOMICAL SELF . The Bilateral Origin Of Consciousness A "collocation of atoms" cannot explain consciousnessBilaterality and infinity anticipation Imagery and mediolaterality Axial movement and infinity Qualia and axial movement . The Unified Brain The brain has an "eye" for its boundary sufficiency The brain has no brains The homuncular rationale Metabolic and behavioral unity . Infinity Anticipation And The Brain The cephalad nature of awareness Cephalad proximitiesLateral inhibition and the "remembered present"Abstraction and size sufficiency Does infinity have a shape? Space-time and the anatomy of focal-ambience Memory structures are key to a probabilistic, infinity-based theory . The Brain In A Personal Universe "Neuronal models" Who's the boss? The mediolateral brain Language, object recognition, and body awareness Specificity depends upon an infinite Person The three-dimensional nature of the brain in a personal universe Facial recognition depends upon infinity being personal . The Limbic Link To Eternity The limbic bridge between perception and behavior Introspective exercisesThe reticular core monitors the ongoing probability of survival Hippocampal "memory" and size sufficiency Infinity anticipation and cortico-limbic harmony Limbic loops with the past rule out materialism . Unity Amidst Diversity Perception and the interfacing of space and time Habituation, rhythms, and spiritual reality Infinity anticipation and signal-to-noise ratios Infinity, rage, and thermoregulationAll structure has a mediolateral configuration Abstraction and the limbic "inner sanctum" Limbic predictions and infinity anticipation The limbic forebrain and physiological unityCircadian rhythms, thermoregulation, and infinityThe wisdom of the body Thermodynamics and free will . The Sleeping Brain "Chunking" and circadian rhythms The thermoregulatory function of sleep and dreams God, sex, and dreams . Needle In A Haystack Where is the "locus" of infinity anticipation? The perception-action cycle A quick review of brain unity A developmental clueFalling pianos and the "interaction" of mind and body Hormones and the mind-body problem An autonomic perspective Oppositional systems A biochemical perspective Mind-body duality from an energy perspective . Memory The meaning of memory "Home" defines our search for energy . The Ethical Brain The anatomy of deception Neural design and morality EndnotesBibliography
Synopsis
Infinity and the Brain offers a unique and logical solution to the mind-body problem. The book proposes that the relationship between mind and body is understandable only to the measure that we and our brains are unceasingly dependent upon the immanence of God. Part I explains why this is true based on how all physical structure tends to dissipate, thus moving toward its own nonexistence-a process that links the stability of all organized matter, including the brain, to the infinitude of God. The book explains why, were it not for the expectable wholeness of an image and a concomitant restraint of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, matter itself would be impossible. Part II theorizes that we have necessarily been made in the image of God if we are to explain the brain's homuncular design, a design by which the release of structurally-bound energy-in the incipient absence of an image-parallels an accelerating movement toward infinitude. The only requirement is that the universe must be fundamentally God-centered and personal-so personal that perception is literally equivalent to the efficiency by which an organism expects and habituates to its own finitude as contrasted with the infinitude of God., Infinity and the Brain offers a unique and logical solution to the mind-body problem. The book proposes that the relationship between mind and body is understandable only to the measure that we and our brains are unceasingly dependent upon the immanence of God. Part I explains why this is true based on how all physical structure tends to dissipate, thus moving toward its own nonexistence-a process that links the stability of all organized matter, including the brain, to the infinitude of God. The book explains why, were it not for the expectable wholeness of an image and a concomitant restraint of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, matter itself would be impossible. Part II theorizes that we have necessarily been made "in the image" of God if we are to explain the brain's homuncular design, a design by which the release of structurally-bound energy-in the incipient absence of an image-parallels an accelerating movement toward infinitude. The only requirement is that the universe must be fundamentally God-centered and personal-so personal that perception is literally equivalent to the efficiency by which an organism expects and habituates to its own finitude as contrasted with the infinitude of God.>, Infinity and the Brain offers a unique and logical solution to the mind-body problem. The book proposes that the relationship between mind and body is understandable only to the measure that we and our brains are unceasingly dependent upon the immanence of God. Part I explains why this is true based on how all physical structure tends to dissipate, thus moving toward its own nonexistence-a process that links the stability of all organized matter, including the brain, to the infinitude of God. The book explains why, were it not for the expectable wholeness of an image and a concomitant restraint of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, matter itself would be impossible. Part II theorizes that we have necessarily been made "in the image" of God if we are to explain the brain's homuncular design, a design by which the release of structurally-bound energy-in the incipient absence of an image-parallels an accelerating movement toward infinitude. The only requirement is that the universe must be fundamentally God-centered and personal-so personal that perception is literally equivalent to the efficiency by which an organism expects and habituates to its own finitude as contrasted with the infinitude of God., Infinity and the Brain proposes a logical and scientific way to resolve the paradox of mind and matter -- by explaining how the perception of a finite image is dependent upon the contrasting infinitude of God. The theory holds that awareness is equal to a tension between existence and nonexistence, such that the self is illuminated to itself (becomes conscious) to the exact measure that it anticipates the infinitude of its own nonexistence. This "anticipation" is actually a "tendency toward" a loss of structure in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics, a process that is restrained by effort and the consequent wholesness of an image. An understanding of how effort is linked to an image and how both are dependent upon neural systems inseparable from "infinity anticipation" sets the stage for a new worldview -- in which mind is seen as dependent upon the immanence of an infinite God. And because "mind" can be defined by the presence of an image which intrinsically restrains disorder, we see by extrapolation that the entire universe must be fundamentally personal, not objective as currently viewed by modern science. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
BD331.D82 2002
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