Interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness and the self / edited by Sangeetha Menon; Anindya Sinha; B V Sreekantan

Chapter 1: Introduction --
Part I: Consciousness, Agency and the Self --
Chapter 2: Conscious Agency and the Preconscious/Unconscious Self --
Chapter 3: Finding the Self and Losing the Ego in the State of Pure Consciousness --
Chapter 4: Converging on the Self: Western Philosophy, Eastern Meditation, Scientific Research --
Chapter 5: The Self as Organiser --
Chapter 6: Reconceptualizing the Separative Self. Chapter 7: Consciousness, Memory and Dreams in Kashyapa Samhita. Chapter 8: Experientially Acquired Knowledge of the Self in a Nonhuman Primate --
Chapter 9: Executive Functions as a Path to Understanding Nonhuman Con-sciousness: Looking under the Light --
Chapter 10: Self, Identity and Culture --
Part II: Self and First-person Phenomenology --
Chapter 11: Consciousness and First Person Phenomenology: First steps towards an Experiential Phenomenological Writing and Reading (EWR) --
Chapter 12: Self and Neurophenomenology: Gift and Responsibility --
Chapter 13: The Inside-Outside Story of Consciousness: A Phenomenological Exploration --
Chapter 14: Self and Empathy --
Chapter 15: Adapted Self in the Context of Disability: An Ecological, Embodied Perspective --
Chapter 16: Self and Transformative Experiences: Three Indian Philosophers on Consciousness --
Part III: Boundaries of the Self and Origins of Consciousness --
Chapter 17: Soul, Neurons, Particles, or Mind-at-Large? Exploring the Boundaries of the Self --
Chapter 18: Is the Source of Awareness Present in the Quantum Vacuum? --
Chapter 19: Cosmological Considerations Relevant to the Origin of Consciousness --
Chapter 20: Reality and Consciousness: Is Quantum Biology the Future of Life Sciences? --
Chapter 21: Human Brain is a Coherent State of the Mind --
Chapter 22: Consciousness, Functional Geometry and Internal Representation --
Chapter 23: Consciousness, Libertarian Free Will and Quantum Randomness.