Self comes to mind: constructing the conscious brain

Front Cover\r......Page 1
Title Page\r......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
1. Awakening......Page 13
Goals and Reasons......Page 15
Approaching the Problem......Page 16
The Self as Witness......Page 20
Overcoming a Misleading Intuition......Page 21
An Integrated Perspective......Page 22
The Framework......Page 23
III......Page 26
IV......Page 27
V......Page 28
VI......Page 29
VII......Page 30
Life and the Conscious Mind......Page 31
The Implausibility of Reality......Page 33
Natural Will......Page 34
Staying Alive......Page 40
The Origins of Homeostasis......Page 42
Cells, Multicellular Organisms, and Engineered Machines......Page 43
Biological Value......Page 44
Biological Value in Whole Organisms......Page 45
The Success of Our Early Forerunners......Page 47
Developing Incentives......Page 49
Connecting Homeostasis, Value, and Consciousness......Page 51
Maps and Images......Page 55
Cutting Below the Surface......Page 56
Maps and Minds......Page 60
The Neurology of Mind......Page 62
FEELING PAIN AND PLEASURE AFTER INSULAR DESTRUCTION......Page 65
THE STRANGE SITUATION OF CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX......Page 68
A NOTE ON THE SUPERIOR COLLICULUS......Page 70
Closer to the Making of Mind?......Page 72
The Topic of the Mind......Page 74
Body Mapping......Page 76
Representing Quantities and Constructing Qualities......Page 79
Mapping Body States and Simulating Body States......Page 82
The Source of an Idea......Page 85
The Body-Minded Brain......Page 86
Defining Emotion and Feeling......Page 87
Triggering and Executing Emotions......Page 89
The Strange Case of William James......Page 91
Feelings of Emotion......Page 93
How Do We Feel an Emotion?......Page 95
The Varieties of Emotion......Page 97
Up and Down the Emotional Range......Page 99
An Aside on Admiration and Compassion......Page 100
Somehow, Somewhere......Page 102
The Nature of Memory Records......Page 104
Dispositions Came First, Maps Followed......Page 105
Memory at Work......Page 106
A Brief Aside on Kinds of Memory......Page 109
Convergence-Divergence Zones......Page 110
More on Convergence-Divergence Zones......Page 113
The Model at Work......Page 117
The How and Where of Perception and Recall......Page 119
Defining Consciousness......Page 122
Breaking Consciousness Apart......Page 123
Removing the Self and Keeping a Mind......Page 126
Completing a Working Definition......Page 128
Kinds of Consciousness......Page 129
Human and Nonhuman Consciousness......Page 132
What Consciousness Is Not......Page 133
The Freudian Unconscious......Page 136
A Working Hypothesis......Page 138
Approaching the Conscious Brain......Page 140
Previewing the Conscious Mind......Page 141
The Ingredients of a Conscious Mind......Page 143
The Protoself......Page 145
MASTER INTEROCEPTIVE MAPS......Page 146
MASTER ORGANISM MAPS......Page 150
MAPS OF THE EXTERNALLY DIRECTED SENSORY PORTAL......Page 151
Constructing the Core Self......Page 154
The Core Self State......Page 157
Touring the Brain as It Constructs a Conscious Mind......Page 160
Memory Made Conscious......Page 161
Constructing the Autobiographical Self......Page 162
The Coordinators......Page 164
A Possible Role for the Posteromedial Cortices......Page 167
The PMCs at Work......Page 171
ANESTHESIA RESEARCH......Page 173
SLEEP RESEARCH......Page 174
THE PMCS’ INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEFAULT NETWORK......Page 175
RESEARCH ON NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS......Page 176
COMA, VEGETATIVE STATE, AND THE CONTRAST TO LOCKED-IN SYNDROME......Page 180
A Closing Note on the Pathologies of Consciousness......Page 182
By Way of Summary......Page 185
THE BRAIN STEM......Page 186
THE THALAMUS......Page 189
THE CEREBRAL CORTEX......Page 190
The Anatomical Bottleneck Behind the Conscious Mind......Page 191
From the Ensemble Work of Large Anatomical Divisions to the Work of Neurons......Page 192
Qualia I......Page 194
Qualia II......Page 196
Unfinished Business......Page 200
Why Consciousness Prevailed......Page 202
Self and the Issue of Control......Page 203
An Aside on the Unconscious......Page 206
A Note on the Genomic Unconscious......Page 210
The Feeling of Conscious Will......Page 211
Educating the Cognitive Unconscious......Page 212
Brain and Justice......Page 213
Nature and Culture......Page 214
Self Comes to Mind......Page 217
The Consequences of a Reflective Self......Page 219
BRAIN ARCHITECTURE......Page 224
BRICKS AND MORTAR......Page 225
MORE ON THE LARGE-SCALE ARCHITECTURE......Page 229
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCATION......Page 233
AT THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THE BRAIN AND THE WORLD......Page 235
A NOTE ON THE MIND-BRAIN EQUIVALENCE HYPOTHESIS......Page 236
1 / Awakening......Page 239
2 / From Life Regulation to Biological Value......Page 243
3 / Making Maps and Making Images......Page 245
4 / The Body in Mind......Page 248
5 / Emotions and Feelings......Page 250
6 / An Architecture for Memory......Page 252
7 / Consciousness Observed......Page 255
8 / Building a Conscious Mind......Page 256
9 / The Autobiographical Self......Page 257
10 / Putting It Together......Page 260
11 / Living with Consciousness......Page 262
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 266
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 268