{"product_id":"irreducible-mind-9781442202061","title":"Irreducible Mind","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurrent mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe present volume, however, demonstrates \u003cem\u003eempirically\u003c\/em\u003e that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTopics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind\/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602999525612,"sku":"9781442202061","price":83.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781442202061-irreducible-mind.jpg?v=1778052371","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/irreducible-mind-9781442202061","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}