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Phenomenology and the physical reality of consciousness /
The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 83. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that consciousness is a phenomenon that exists in and throughout the body. Apart from whether or not it involves intentionality and apart from whether or not it involves awareness of the self, consciousness is self-intimating, self-revealing, self-disclosing. Self-disclosure is the definitive phenomenolog. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 262 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284174 9027284172 1283280442 9781283280440 9786613280442 6613280445 |