The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of physical events, upon the mind of the recipient of the letter. the authors of this book stress that they cannot solve the body mind problem; but they hope that they have been able to shed new light on it.
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PART I by Karl R. Popper, Chapter P1: Materialism Transcends Itself, Chapter P2: The Worlds 1, 2 and 3, Chapter P3: Materialism Criticized, Chapter P4: Some Remarks on the Self, Chapter P5: Historical Comments on the Mind-Body Problem, Chapter P6: Summary, Bibliography to Part 1, PART II by John C. Eccles, Chapter E1: The Cerebral Cortex, Chapter E2: Conscious Perception, Chapter E3: Voluntary Movement, Chapter E4: The Language Centres of the Human Brain, Chapter E5: Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum, Chapter E6: Circumscribed Cerebral Lesions, Chapter E7: The Self-Conscious Mind and the Brain, Chapter E8: Conscious Memory: The Cerebral Processes Concerned in Storage and Retrieval, Bibliography to Part II, PART III Dialogues Between the Two Authors, Bibliography to Part III, Index of Names, Index of Subjects.
