Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and acquisition of logical and apparently 'imageless' inference skills. It is argued that to be conscious of an object is essentially to imagine in a habituated way what would happen if we were to perform certain actions in relation to the object; and that mental images fit together to build up abstract concepts. This analysis shows why conscious information processing is so structurally different from — yet interrelated with — non-conscious processing, and how mind and body interrelate as a process to its substratum in the way that a sound wave relates to the medium through which it passes. (Series A)
This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain.
This book explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.
... Shilling THE BOOK OF NAORNAON Terryl Givens BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen THE BRAIN Michael O'Shea ... COMPUTER Darrel Ince CONAPUTER SCIENCE Subrata Dasgupta CONFUCIANISMA Daniel K. Gardner THE CONOUISTADORS Matthew ...
This book collects interviews with some of the foremost philosophers of mind, focusing on open questions, promising projects, and their own intellectual histories.
Claims about consciousness in animals are often made in support of their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues that there is no fact of the matter about animal consciousness and it is of no scientific or ethical significance.
In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines—from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought—go beyond these limits of current neuroscience ...
This text moves far beyond the knowledge of music's power upon humans, however this may be conceived and explained.
This is the question explored by Lawrence Weiskrantz, a distinguished neuropsychologist who has worked with such patients over 30 years.
The book stems from the Chichele lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology.
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