The Single-Neuron Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. The Mind/Brain Problem

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 1-18

3. Principles of Cortical Function

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 19-48

4. Perception

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 49-81

5. Memory

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 83-108

6. Feelings

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 109-122

7. The Split-Brain Paradigm

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 123-149

8. Frontal Convergence

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 151-167

9. Neuronal Networks

   • Stephen Sevush

   Pages 169-196

10. The Single Neuron

    • Stephen Sevush

    Pages 197-215

11. The Single-Neuron Theory

    • Stephen Sevush

    Pages 217-230

12. Quantum Consciousness

    • Stephen Sevush

    Pages 231-249

13. Reflections and Ramifications

    • Stephen Sevush

    Pages 251-260

14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-299

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This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs. It suggests that conscious experience happens not at the whole brain level but at the level of individual nerve cells. The notion that the brain as a whole is sentient is an illusion created by the exquisite organization of the individually conscious neurons. Despite appearances to the contrary, conscious behavior that seems to be the product of a single macroscopic mind is actually the integrated output of a chorus of microscopic minds, each associated with an individual neuron. The result is a theory that revolutionizes our conception of who and what we are.

• Neuroscience
• Cognitive Psychology
• Consciousness
• Neurology
• Philosophy of Psychology

“I enjoyed reading this volume. … I would certainly recommend this volume to my postgraduate students and to academic colleagues for the sheer provocative nature of the arguments being made alone. It was a refreshing read.” (Jason J. Braithwaite, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (25), June, 2017) 

• School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, USA

  Steven Sevush

Steven Sevush is Emeritus Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Miami, USA. He has been a teacher, researcher, and clinician in behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry for over thirty years. His written works include The Single-Neuron Theory of Consciousness published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

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