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Consciousness transitions : phylogenetic, ontogenetic and physiological aspects.
It was not long ago when the consciousness was not considered a problem for science. However, this has now changed and the problem of consciousness is considered the greatest challenge to science. In the last decade, a great number of books and articles have been published in the field, but very few...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Elsevier Science,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1. Beyond Cognition
- On Consciousness Transitions (P. �Arhem and H. Liljenstr�om)
- 2. The Remote Roots of Consciousness in Fruit-fly Selective Attention (B. van Swinderen)
- 3. The Evolution of Consciousness in Animals (R.V. Rial, M.C. Nicolau, A. Gamun�d, M. Ak�arir, C. Garau and S. Esteban)
- 4. On the Origin of Consciousness
- Some Amniote Scenarios (P. �Arhem, I. Lindahl, P. Manger and A. Butler)
- 5. A Bird's Eye View of Consciousness (E. MacPhail)
- 6. The Molecular Biology of Consciousness Investigated with Genetically Modified Mice (J-P. Changeux)
- 7. The Emergence of Consciousness in the Fetus and the Newborn (H. Lagercrantz)
- 8. An Inside-Out Paradigm for Consciousness and Intelligence (R. Cotterill)
- 9. Consciousness Without a Cerebral Cortex (B. Merker)
- 10. Three Types of State Transition Underlying Perception (W.J. Freeman)
- 11. Conscious Contents Provide and Coherent Global Information (B. Baars)
- 12. Evolutionary and Developmental Aspects of Intersubjectivity (P. �Grdenfors)
- 13. The Phenomenon of Consciousness from a Popperian Perspective (P. Munz)
- Index.