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Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Prem Saran Satsangi

    1. Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Deemed to be University, Agra, India

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  2. Anna Margaretha Horatschek

    1. Department of English and American Literatures, Cultures, and Media, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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  3. Anand Srivastav

    1. Department of Mathematics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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  • Presents relevant international top research on consciousness in the sciences, humanities, and synergistic approaches
  • Offers several synergistic consciousness models from Eastern and Western perspectives, including spiritual approaches
  • Highlights the potential and limits of specific scientific, philosophical, and religious approaches

Part of the book series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality (SNCS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Consciousness Studies: Which Consciousness? What Studies?

      • Anna Margaretha Horatschek
      Pages 3-21

    3. The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps

      • Anna Margaretha Horatschek, Anand Srivastav
      Pages 23-30

  3. Models of Consciousness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Is “das Geistige” the Basic of the World?

      • Christine Mann
      Pages 33-42

    3. Consciousness and Implicit Self-Awareness: Eastern and Western Perspectives

      • Rocco J. Gennaro
      Pages 43-54

    4. The Case for Panpsychism

      • Philip Goff
      Pages 55-61

    5. A Many-Sided Brain: The Jain Approach to Studying Consciousness

      • Andrea Diem-Lane
      Pages 63-74

  4. Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. On the Non-Computability of Consciousness

      • Subhash Kak
      Pages 77-86

    3. Consciousness and Mathematical Sciences

      • Anand Srivastav
      Pages 87-100

    4. The Rendered Universe: Why Virtual Reality Unlocks the Secret of Consciousness

      • David Christopher Lane
      Pages 101-123

    5. ‘Virtue gone nuts’: Machine Ethics in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me (2019)

      • Anna Margaretha Horatschek
      Pages 125-132

  5. Consciousness and the Brain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Consciousness in Human Medicine: Medical Approach with the Example of Epilepsy

      • Ulrich Stephani, Ami Kumar
      Pages 135-139

    3. The Modelling Supremacy of the Topological Graph Theoretic Models and Connections to Biology

      • Apurva Narayan
      Pages 141-158

  6. Consciousness and the Senses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Sonic Consciousness in Hindu India

      • Annette Wilke
      Pages 161-186

    3. Improvisation and Consciousness: Some Recent Links

      • Ralph Yarrow
      Pages 187-197
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About this book

This book presents consciousness models from Eastern and Western perspectives that accommodate current scientific research in the natural sciences and humanities, from neurological experiments through philosophical enquiries to spiritual approaches. It offers up to date research from key disciplines in consciousness studies ranging from neurology, quantum mechanics, algorithmic science, mathematics, and astrophysics to literary studies, philosophy, and (comparative) theology.

The volume examines the dichotomy between Western and Eastern perceptions of consciousness – where consciousness is perceived as brain activity by Western scientists, and as a divine presence by various religions, especially in the East. The essays contextualize each other and reciprocally illuminate the potential and limits of the respective approaches. The texts aim at a transdisciplinary and transcultural exchange of ideas in consciousness studies and address a readership from interested lay-readers toexperts of the field. The volume is of interest to researchers of consciousness studies. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Deemed to be University, Agra, India

    Prem Saran Satsangi

  • Department of English and American Literatures, Cultures, and Media, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Anna Margaretha Horatschek

  • Department of Mathematics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Anand Srivastav

About the editors

Professor Prem Saran Satsangi obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo (1969), served IIT Delhi as full Professor of Electrical Engineering, worked as honorary Director at DEI (Deemed University) Agra, India (1993-2002), and is currently Chairman, Advisory Committee on Education at the DEI. He was the Founder President of Systems Society of India (1981 – 84) and received among others the Lifetime Achievement Award from IIT Roorkee,, and in 2011 the Distinguished Service Award from IIT Delhi. He is the first awardee of the newly Instituted “Alumni of Eminence Award” (Beyond Distinguished Alumni Award) by BHU-IIT (voluntarily accepted on an Honorary Basis, as was the case, for the earlier Award too).

 

A.M. Horatschek was Professor and Chair for English Literature at Kiel University, Germany, from 2000-2018. B.A. from UC Berkeley, USA; Visiting Professor U of Maryland. Since 2011 member, and 2016 – 2021 Vice President ofthe German Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. Research focus: knowledge formation, consciousness studies, identity and alterity, self-concepts, (intermedial) representation, Indian Literatures in English (gender, ecocriticism), justice concepts in global contexts. Latest book: Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit. (Ed.), DeGruyter, 2020.

 

Anand Srivastav is Professor and Chair for Discrete Optimization at the department of Mathematics at Kiel University since 1997. In 1988 he received the doctoral degree Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Muenster, Germany. Thereafter, he has been Assistant Professor at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, and visiting Professor at NYU and Yale Univ., both USA, before he joined Kiel University. He was born in Dayalbagh, Agra, India.   

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