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Consciousness Studies: A Systems Framework for the Structure of Experience

by Chris Cathey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798197020291
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 236
  • Original Price: GBP 17.92
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 277 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Consciousness Studies is a serious interdisciplinary exploration of the structure of human experience.

Blending philosophy of mind, cybernetics, systems theory, clinical psychology, phenomenology, hypnosis, NLP, contemplative practice, trauma theory, and the study of altered states, Chris Cathey presents consciousness not as a fixed object inside the brain, but as a living process shaped by body, language, memory, state, relationship, culture, and environment.

The book begins with the central difficulty of consciousness: experience is the medium through which all observation occurs, yet it is also the very subject being investigated. From there, the work moves through the hard problem of consciousness, the history of the mind-body question, the distinction between consciousness and attention, wakefulness, intelligence, memory, and the brain, and the systems-theoretical claim that consciousness is better understood as process, pattern, and organization.

Later chapters examine the map-making nature of the nervous system, state dependency, the shifting self, language, frames, metaphor, trance, hypnosis, narrative identity, trauma, coercive control, digital consciousness, meditation, psychedelic states, dreams, lucidity, and the autonomous unconscious. The book closes with the ethical and political implications of cognitive sovereignty, influence, and the possibility of a civilization that takes consciousness seriously.

Written for readers interested in consciousness studies, philosophy, psychology, systems theory, hypnosis, therapy, and the structure of subjective experience, this book offers a rigorous but accessible framework for understanding the maps human beings live inside.

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