CONTENTS
1. Opening Remarks: Brain Science as a Path to World Peace
2. Toward a Natural Science of the Mind
The Philosophical Roots of Science
On Perception, Representation, and Conceptualization
Mind and Brain: One and the Same?
A Materialist Critique of Dualism
The Technological Bias of Mind/Brain Metaphors
A Middle Path between Dualism and Materialism
4. The Spectrum of Consciousness: From Gross to Subtle
When Does Consciousness Begin?
On Specialization and Adaptation
The Continuity of Subtle Consciousness
Cosmology and the Origins of Consciousness
5. Mapping Brain Functions: The Evidence of Damage to Specific Brain Regions
Categorical Distinctions in Consciousness
The Brain’s Representation of Body Awareness
6. Subliminal Awareness and Memories from Previous Lives
7. Steps toward an Anatomy of Memory
Isolating Memory: The Evidence of Damage
8. Brain Control of Sleeping and Dreaming States
Measuring Sleep and Dream Cycles
Neuronal Controls of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Waking
What Is the Purpose of Dreaming?
9. Manifestations of Subtle Consciousness
10. What Constitutes Scientific Evidence?
11. Psychiatric Illnesses and Psychopharmacology
Noninvasive Imaging: A Window on the Brain
Advances in Psychopharmacology
The Genetic Inheritance of Mental Illness
12. The Limits of Intervention
13. A Buddhist Deconstruction of the Mind’s Self
14. In Conclusion: Building Bridges
Afterword: Buddhist Reflections by B. Alan Wallace