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Phenomenal consciousness : understanding the relation between experience and neural processes in the brain /

How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Platchias, Dimitris, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The nature of the mind ; 2. Phenomenal consciousness: The hard problem; 3. Phenomenal consciousness and the ""sufficiency"" claim ; 4. Experience and first-order representationalism ; 5. Experience and the explanatory gap.
  • 6. Experience and higher-order representationalism Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.