Life-Mind-Truth and Consciousness

This book records the proceedings at the Internatrional Seminar on ''LifeMind and Consciousness'' conducted in 2004 at KolkattaIndia.Reknowned philosophers and scientists from different parts of the country and abroad actively participated in the Seminar and their deliberations were very educative. The relevance of the subject of the seminar is best explained in the words of the world renowned Physicist Dr.Max Plank in 1931; ''Philosophers have realized that they have no right to dictate to scientists their aims and and methods for attaining them:and scientists have learned that the starting point of their investigations does not lie solely in the perceptions of the sensesand that science can not exist without small prortons of metaphysics.'' The seminar tried to explore the riddle of consciousness from scientific points of view as well as from philosophical angles both Easten and Western.The book contains the proceedings of this interactive seminar. This book stimulates the reader and will be a great asset to every serious minded reader.