Consciousness andReductionism

Consciousness and
Reductionism A Qur'anic
Critique of Physicalism
Modern science can map every neuron, trace every signal and image the
living brain in real time. Yet it still cannot say who is doing the seeing.
This book takes up the question physicalism has left unanswered: why
is the activity of a brain accompanied by a self that experiences it?
Drawing on contemporary neuroscience and the philosophy of mind, it
sets out the Qur'anic account of the human being. In that account, the
body and brain are the instrument, and the soul is the witness who acts
through them.
From the formation of the embryo to the order in which the senses
awaken, from the slow corrosion of conscience to the stillness of
remembrance, and from the threshold of death to the worlds beyond it,
Consciousness and Reductionism reads two books at once: the signs in
the horizons and the signs within the self.
It closes with a rigorous review of the scientific evidence, from fetal
hearing to the neuroscience of dishonesty and awareness during cardiac
arrest. Each finding is stated as clearly as the research allows.
Written for scientists, scholars and every reader who has wondered who
is looking out from behind their own eyes.
We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves
until it becomes clear to them that this is the truth.i (41:53)