Main description:

The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. This book presents a new theoretical model for how to "translate" between the two, using a third language: nonlinear physics and mathematics. It illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms.

Contents:

Contents Forewords:

Danatella Marazziti................................................................................................ ix

Alwyn Scott........................................................................................................... xi

Nick Mansfield..................................................................................................... xiii

David R. Hawkins............................................................................................... xvii

Introduction............................................................................................................. xxi

The Puzzle............................................................................................................... xxv

Part I: Learning the Languages.................................................................................... 1

1. Humanity's Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review

of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology.................................................................. 3

2. An "Ideographic," Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal
Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics................................................... 15

3. A "Demotic," First-Person Language of the Individual and the

Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche................................................... 27

4. The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................... 33

Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism................................................................................................ 35

Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................................. 39

Part II: Seeking the Understanding............................................................................ 45

5. Consciousness......................................................................................................... 47

6. The Unconscious..................................................................................................... 59

7. The Database........................................................................................................... 71

8. Affectivity............................................................................................................... 79

9. The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map........................ 91

Part III: Applying the Knowledge............................................................................. 101

10. The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm?........................ 103

11. The Three Languages and Treatment.................................................................... 115

12. The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity............................................... 127

13. The Role of a New Science for Psyche Upon Society and Culture...................... 135

References........................................................................................................... 147

Name Index......................................................................................................... 151

Subject Index 153