Table of Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. The Neurobiological Approach to Conscious Subjective Experience
(Daniela Altavilla and Valentina Deriu – Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)
Chapter 2. Assessment of Consciousness after Brain Injury: A Prolonged Disorder of Diagnosis
(Sarah Gunn – Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, UK)
Chapter 3. The QBIT Theory of Consciousness
(Majid Beshkar – Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Chapter 4. The Nature and Roles of Consciousness in Theravāda Buddhism
(Peter Harvey – Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Sunderland, UK)
Chapter 5. The Human Default Consciousness, Jhāna Consciousness, Gaia “Consciousness” and Some Thoughts on the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Paul Dennison – Consultant Psychotherapist and Independent Neuroscience Researcher, London, UK)
Chapter 6. The Faces of God: A Kabbalistic “Myth” and its Implications for Consciousness
(B. Les Lancaster – Liverpool John Moores University, UK, The Alef Trust)
Chapter 7. Making Space and Time for Consciousness in Physics
(Bernard Carr – Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Chapter 8. Integration of Consciousness in Teaching and Learning
(Xu Di and Kirsten S.B. Bush – Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, US)
Index
Reviews
“Perspectives on Consciousness is an excellent set of essays on the nature of consciousness in relationship to profound questions regarding its spiritual presence, and also on education. This is a resource book for all universities and especially graduate libraries, as well as anyone deeply interested in these topics. It is a valuable contribution to the field of consciousness studies.” – Professor Allan Combs, Ph.D.; Author of Consciousness Explained Better; The Radiance of Being; The Postconventional Personality
“A valuable and sophisticated contribution to interdisciplinary consciousness studies. It is intellectually challenging…” – David Livingstone Smith, Professor of Philosophy, University of New England; Author of Less than Human, and The Most Dangerous Animal
“Poetic, profound and insightful, and replete with many jewels! Really made me think, stretching my own boundaries. That makes it dangerously good.” – Harris L. Friedman, PhD, Visiting Scholar, History of Science, Harvard University; Author of Transcultural Competence and A Fractal Epistomology for a Scientific Psychology
