GLENN DUDLEY became interested in the mind-body problem as an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado while pursuing a pre-med major and elective studies in physics, philosophy, and Judeo-Christian theology. He received his M.D. degree in 1969, and after doing a combined psychiatry/medicine internship, he completed a two-year program at MIT's Neurosciences Research Program. Then, sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, he studied the mind-body aspects of cancer. From 1975 until his retirement in 1998, Dr. Dudley served as a primary care physician, emphasizing spirit-mind-body relationships.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Historical overview
Theoretical premise: the universe is personal
The origin of an image
Introspective clues
There is no conflict between a personal and a mechanical universe
Light and the illumination of self
Definitions
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PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
- The Expectant Brain
Mind and brain are neither equal nor separate
A diagrammatic approach
Behavior and infinity anticipation
Blobs, qualia, and other mysteries of perception - From The Womb To The Tomb: The Search For Certainty
Who or what actually sees an image?
From small to big in the "now" of time
Familiarity, novelty, and the natural desire for certainty - The Circadian Self
The anticipatory nature of awareness foretells the periodicity of sleep
Which comes first, the self or its image?
The probabilistic basis of sleep and dreams - Sexuality And The Universe
Sexuality and the fetal nature of perception
The probabilistic basis of orgasm
An image is a symbolic castration
The "sex-crazed" brain
The thermodynamic basis of pain and pleasure
A universal principle of fecundity
The law of privacy
"OAGs," orgasm, and social vision
PART II: THE NEUROANATOMICAL SELF - The Bilateral Origin Of Consciousness
A "collocation of atoms" cannot explain consciousness
Bilaterality and infinity anticipation
Imagery and mediolaterality
Axial movement and infinity
Qualia and axial movement - The Unified Brain
The brain has an "eye" for its boundary sufficiency
The brain has no brains
The homuncular rationale
Metabolic and behavioral unity - Infinity Anticipation And The Brain
The cephalad nature of awareness
Cephalad proximities
Lateral inhibition and the "remembered present"
Abstraction and size sufficiency
Does infinity have a shape?
Space-time and the anatomy of focal-ambience
Memory structures are key to a probabilistic, infinity-based theory - The Brain In A Personal Universe
"Neuronal models"
Who's the boss?
The mediolateral brain
Language, object recognition, and body awareness
Specificity depends upon an infinite Person
The three-dimensional nature of the brain in a personal universe
Facial recognition depends upon infinity being personal - The Limbic Link To Eternity
The limbic bridge between perception and behavior
Introspective exercises
The reticular core monitors the ongoing probability of survival
Hippocampal "memory" and size sufficiency
Infinity anticipation and cortico-limbic harmony
Limbic loops with the past rule out materialism - Unity Amidst Diversity
Perception and the interfacing of space and time
Habituation, rhythms, and spiritual reality
Infinity anticipation and signal-to-noise ratios
Infinity, rage, and thermoregulation
All structure has a mediolateral configuration
Abstraction and the limbic "inner sanctum"
Limbic predictions and infinity anticipation
The limbic forebrain and physiological unity
Circadian rhythms, thermoregulation, and infinity
The wisdom of the body
Thermodynamics and free will - The Sleeping Brain
"Chunking" and circadian rhythms
The thermoregulatory function of sleep and dreams
God, sex, and dreams - Needle In A Haystack
Where is the "locus" of infinity anticipation?
The perception-action cycle
A quick review of brain unity
A developmental clue
Falling pianos and the "interaction" of mind and body
Hormones and the mind-body problem
An autonomic perspective
Oppositional systems
A biochemical perspective
Mind-body duality from an energy perspective - Memory
The meaning of memory
"Home" defines our search for energy - The Ethical Brain
The anatomy of deception
Neural design and moralityEndnotes
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