How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN  (English, Paperback, Eccles John C.)

In this book the author has collected a number of hisimportant works and added an extensive commentary relatinghis ideas to those of other prominentnames in theconsciousness debate. The view presented here is that of aconvinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorousway the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recentworks. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-braininteraction via a quantum process affecting the release ofneurotransmitters.John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awardedthe Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He hasnumerous other awards honouring his major contributions toneurophysiology.