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The Single-Neuron Theory

Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

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Authors:
  1. Steven Sevush

    1. School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, USA

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  • Revolutionizes our conception of who and what we are

  • Develops a provocative new theory about how conscious behavior is produced

  • Proposes that conscious experience happens not at the whole brain level but at the level of individual nerve cells

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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.

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“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) 

Authors and Affiliations

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

    Steven Sevush

About the author

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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