The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning (59 page)
Authors: Daniel Bor
BOOK: The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
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highways, integrity of
influence of
information and
landscape of
local
machinery of
networks of
number of
unconscious
waves/rhythms of
Neurophysiology
Neuroscience
cognitive
consciousness and
future of
imprecise nature of
Neurotransmitters
changes in
dysfunctional
New Scientist
Newton, Isaac
Nikolov, Stanislav
Nonlinguistic beings, consciousness and
Nonphysical, consciousness and.
See also
Mary and knowing what it is like; Mind-body duality
See also
Mary and knowing what it is like; Mind-body duality
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Octopuses
brain of
cognitive skills of
Orangutans
brain of
Orbitofrontal cortex
Organisms
complex
multicellular
viral gate-crashing of
Origins of life
Over-consciousness
Owen, Adrian
Pain, handling
Panic disorder.
See also
Anxiety
See also
Anxiety
Parallel architecture.
See also
Computers; Networks
See also
Computers; Networks
Paranoid delusions
Paravicini, Derek
Parietal cortex.
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
Parietal lobes, complex thought and
Parkinson’s disease
Patil, Sandeep
Patterns.
See
Structure
See
Structure
Pavlov, Ivan
Penfield, Ruth
Penfield, Wilder
Peppard, Paul
Perception
Performance
improving
(Persistent) vegetative state (PVS)
coma and
consciousness and
definition of
diagnostic tests of
thalamus and
zolpidem and
Personality
changes due to brain damage
frontal lobes and
orbitofrontal cortex and
problems
Phillips, Patrick
Philosophy
category mistake, non-physical consciousness
consciousness, knowing what it is like
consciousness, non-physical nature
mind-body duality
non-computable aspect of feelings/sensations
non-computable aspect of meaning
science versus
Physics
Planck, Max
Plants, information processing by
Posit-Science
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prabhakaran, Vivek
Pratt, Nikki
Prefrontal cortex.
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
abnormal activity in
consciousness and
damage to
Prefrontal parietal network
ADHD and
boosting
brain-scanning
chunking and
consciousness and
control by
damage to
sequences and
working memory and
Primordial life
ideas stored in
Programs.
See
Computers
See
Computers
Propofol
Protein
DNA and
Psychiatric conditions.
See
Mental illness
See
Mental illness
Psychology
of consciousness
of unconsciousness
Quantum mechanics
Ranganath, Charan
Rapid eye movement (REM)
Raven’s Progressive Matrices, IQ test
Recovery from brain damage
diagnostic markers for
Recurrent processing model
Rensink, Ronald
Replication.
See
Reproduction
See
Reproduction
Reproduction
asexual
bacterial
self-replication
selfish
sexual
survival and
Reticular formation
Ritalin
RNA
DNA and
Robots
Rosenthal, David
Royal Society, The
Russell, Eric Frank
Ryle, Gilbert
Sahraie, Arash
Salander, Lisbeth
Sarri, Margarita
Savage, Cary
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue
Schiavo, Michael
Schiavo, Terri
Schiff, Nicholas
Schizophrenia
delusions/hallucinations and
glutamate and
meditation and
Ritalin and
treatment for
working memory and
Science
evolution and
experimental failure and
philosophy versus
technology and
Searle, John
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Self-consciousness.
See also
Mirror-recognition test
See also
Mirror-recognition test
awkward
Self-recognition
Self-replication
Selfish gene
Senses
Sensory features
Sensory input
Sequences.
See also
Digit Sequences; Information
See also
Digit Sequences; Information
chunking.
See also
Chunking
See also
Chunking
digit
mathematical
patterned/structured
prefrontal parietal network and
unstructured
Seth, Anil
Sexual reproduction.
See also
Reproduction
See also
Reproduction
Sherashevski, Solomon
Shiv, Baba
Signals
chemical
neuronal,
see
Neurons
see
Neurons
physical
sensory
Simons, Daniel
Simons, Jon
Simpsons, The
Skills
arithmetic
chunks of
cognitive
language
mental
motor
sensory
social
verbal
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (B. F.)
Sleep
consciousness and
deprivation
mental illness and
problems
Sleep apnea
Social decisions, consciousness and
Social ranking
Social situations
Son Rise Program
Space Willies, The
(Russell)
(Russell)
Spatial information
Speech.
See also
Grammar; Language
See also
Grammar; Language
Sperling, George
Stability
chaos and
Star Trek
Stem cell therapy
Stewart, Ian
Stimuli.
See also
Digit sequences; Sensory input; Spatial information
See also
Digit sequences; Sensory input; Spatial information
Strategies.
See also
Chunking; Learning; Memory
See also
Chunking; Learning; Memory
discounting
evolutionary
Stress
amygdala and
C. elegans
sexual reproduction preference under
sexual reproduction preference under
consciousness and
mutation rates in bacteria and
prefrontal cortex and
mental illness and
Strokes
Structure.
See also
Chunking; Chunks
See also
Chunking; Chunks
autism and
biological value in seeking
detecting
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