TY - BOOK AU - Menon, Sangeetha AU - Menon,Sangeetha TI - Consciousness, Experience and Ways of Knowing: Perspectives from Science, Philosophy and the Arts SN - 8187663618 U1 - N54 PY - 2006/// CY - Bangalore PB - National Institute of Advanced Studies N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Papers The Concept of Beauty in Indian Aesthetics .......................... 1 Mrinalini Sarabhai Science, Reality and Consciousness ....................................... 6 B. V. Sreekantan Denying Experience in the Physical World: Consciousness Misled ........................................................... 17 C. S. Unnikrishnan Consciousness and Cognitive Anomalies ............................. 41 K. Ramakrishna Rao The Theory of Rasa as Expounded in Indian Aesthetics, Poetics and Dramaturgy ........................ 102 Shatavadhani R. Ganesh The "Conscious" Bacterium ............................................... 108 s. Mahadevan 1. Neurological Narratives: A Humanistic Study of Oliver Sacks` Narrative Medicine .................................. 115 P. Sharat Shastri Meditation: Brain Activity and Cognitive Changes.............................................................. 155 Narayanan Srinivasan & Shruti Baijal Attention, Awareness and Knowledge: Implications of Change Blindness ...................................... 184 Farah Naaz & Narayanan Srinivasan Actions, Knowledge and Consciousness ............................ 201 Dilip Athreya, Sanjay Chandrasekharan & Narayanan Srinivasan The Puzzle of Experiential Primacy and Consciousness................................................ 218 Sangeetha Menon Consciousness, Self and Metaphor..................................... 229 V. Harinayanan Art and Archaeometallurgy of Nataraja: Exploring Visual Metaphors for Consciousness................. 242 Sharada Srinivasan A Panel Discussion on Consciousness, Experience and Ways of Knowing................................................. 254 Narayanan Srinivasan, Ramkrishna Rao, Sangeetha Menon, B. V. Sreekantan, C. S. Unnikrishnan ER -