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Understanding consciousness /

A new explanation of consciousness that will be of great interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and other professionals concerned with mind/body relationships, and all who care deeply about this subject.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Velmans, Max, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia, PA : Routledge, 2000.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • pt. I. Mind-body theories and their problems. 1. What is consciousness? ; 2. Is there a conscious soul in the brain? ; 3. Are mind and matter the same thing? ; 4. Are mind and consciousness just activities? ; 5. Could robots be conscious?
  • pt. II. A new analysis: how to marry science with experience. 6. Conscious phenomenology and common sense ; 7. Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself ; 8. Subjective, intersubjective and objective science ; 9. Consciousness, brains and human information processing
  • pt. III. A new synthesis: reflexive monism. 10. What consciousness is ; 11. What consciousness does ; 12. Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe
  • References
  • Name index
  • Subject index.