Spiritual Ecology: An Exploration of Self interwoven in a Multidimensional Energetic Landscape

Differentiated from but informed by the ideas of neuroreductionism (consciousness explained solely as a function of brain neurological process) and functionalism (consciousness explained as an understanding of interrelated processes within the nervous system as a whole), neurophenomenologists explain consciousness as a process that emerges from an intertwined combination of “conscious experience, the physics, biochemistry, and biology of the nervous system; and of the non-linear dynamics of neural networks….what Francisco Varela (1999) has called the ‘triple braid’ of conscious research”
– Jennifer Matthews