
The Limits of Consciousness - A Conversation with Martin Monti
By Howard BurtonLength1h 42m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Martin Monti, Associate Professor in Psychology and Neurosurgery, Brain Injury Research Centre, UCLA. This extensive conversation examines Martin Monti’s innovative work with patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious state which has led to some surprising results that might well prove to be integral to our development of a deeper understanding of consciousness.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, The Collective Unconscious, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Dualism and Science Journalism - Changing hearts and brains
II. Inside The Other - A constant concern
III. The Vegetative State - Evolving understanding
IV. Probing Vegetative States - Some experimental details
V. Beyond Reflex - A thin line
VI. Assessing Consciousness - Unlikely tennis players
VII. Extracting Information - Two types of controls
VIII. Quantifying Consciousness- Towards more rigorous models
IX. Interdisciplinary Interlude - Mathematics, cognitive science and other issues
X. Language and Thought - The Whorfian
Hypothesis and Italian football
XI. Structural Similarities? - Comparing language, mathematics and music
XII. What Makes Us Human - In search of distinction
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Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Psychology, Science and Nature
Length1 hr 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Contents
16Questions for Discussion:
2A Note on the Text
17VII. Extracting Information
3Introduction
18Questions for Discussion:
4The Conversation
19VIII. Quantifying Consciousness
5I. Dualism and Science Journalism
20Questions for Discussion:
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6Questions for Discussion:
21IX. Interdisciplinary Interlude
7II. Inside The Other
22Questions for Discussion:
8Questions for Discussion:
23X. Language and Thought
9III. The Vegetative State
24Questions for Discussion:
10Questions for Discussion:
25XI. Structural Similarities?
11IV. Probing Vegetative States
26Questions for Discussion:
12Questions for Discussion:
27XII. What Makes Us Human
13V. Beyond Reflex
28Questions for Discussion:
14Questions for Discussion:
29Continuing the Conversation
15VI. Assessing Consciousness
