On The Contexts Of Things Human: An Integrative View Of Brain, Consciousness, And Freedom Of Will An Integrative View of Brain, Consciousness, and Freedom of Will

this Book Is Unique In Expanding The Boundaries Of Neuroscience, While Remaining Solidly Grounded Within It. In This, It Outlines A New Plateau Of Wider Integrative Understanding Both Within And Beyond Neuroscience. The Book Advances The View And Implications Of An Integrated Functional Unity Of Consciousness And Brain, Inclusive Of Freedom Of Will. It Reaches From First Principles Of Human Awareness And Apprehension And The Physical Foundations Of Consciousness, Through A Structured Integrative View Of Consciousness And The Brain, To Outlines Of The Ambient Contextual Influences Of Human Living. Comprehensive Overviews Of Brain Theory And Theoretical Neuroscience Are Given. Fundamental Brain Functions Of Human Apprehension, Language, Value, Aesthetics, Rational And Extrarational Knowing, Biological Primals, And Adaptive Integrations Are Seen To Operate Within Such Ambient Influences As Whole Of Nature, Human Plight, Circumstances, Personal Life, Good And Evil, Inner Depths, Worlds Of Man, And Enlightenments. Prof Ronald Macgregor Has Published Extensively In Theoretical Neuroscience Since 1965, Consistently Advocating The Foundationality Of Physiology And Physical Law In Brain-mind Function. His Work Has Helped Ground Neuroelectric Signaling Within Physical Science And Characterize The Neuroelectric Patterns Of Neurons And Neural Networks. The study of isoperimetric inequalities involves a fascinating interplay of analysis, geometry and the theory of partial differential equations. Several conjectures have been made and while many have been resolved, a large number still remain open. One of the principal tools in the study of isoperimetric problems, especially when spherical symmetry is involved, is Schwarz symmetrization, which is also known as the spherically symmetric and decreasing rearrangement of functions. The aim of this book is to give an introduction to the theory of Schwarz symmetrization and study some of its applications. The book gives an modern and up-to-date treatment of the subject and includes several new results proved recently. Effort has been made to keep the exposition as simple and self-contained as possible. A knowledge of the existence theory of weak solutions of elliptic partial differential equations in Sobolev spaces is, however, assumed. Apart from this and a general mathematical maturity at the graduate level, there are no other prerequisites Ch. 1. Introduction and overview -- pt. A. An integrative view of brain and conscious experience- the inner sensibilities. ch. 2. An integrative view of brain and conscious experience. ch. 3. The structure of human value. ch. 4. The inner sensibilities and neurobiology. ch. 5. Consciousness and theoretical neuroscience -- pt. B. An integrative philosophy of brain and conscious experience. ch. 6. Consciousness, physics, and neurobiology. ch. 7. A functional theory of consciousness and its relations in brain. ch. 8. Consciousness, inner constructions, and language. ch. 9. First principles of human awareness and apprehension. ch. 10. Knowing and neurobiology. ch. 11. The larger nature and setting of value -- pt. C. On the contexts of things human. ch. 12. A way of placing things. ch. 13. The universal human condition. ch. 14. Fountal streams of good and evil. ch. 15. Contextual energization fields. ch. 16. Implications and interpretations "Besides outlining a new plateau of wider integrative understanding both within and beyond neuroscience, the book advances a theory and model of an integrated functional unity of consciousness and brain, inclusive of freedom of will. Its scope is wide, covering topics ranging from first principles of human awareness and apprehension and the physical foundations of consciousness, through a structured integrative view of consciousness and the brain grounded and developed in neuroscience, to the outline of the ambient contextual influences of human living. Human apprehension, language, value and rational knowing are discussed, and seen to operate within contexts of imagination, holistic sensibility, circumstances, the human condition, and higher thought."--BOOK JACKET