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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, UK :
Acumen,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 neural processes in the brain. However, although we know that experience arises from a physical basis, we don't have a good explanation of why and how it so arises. The problem of how physical processes give rise to experience is called the 'hard problem' of consciousness and it is the contemporary manifestat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317491873 1317491874 184465480X 9781844654802 1315711419 9781315711416 9786613524003 661352400X 1317491866 9781317491866 |