
Introducing Consciousness
David Papineau(Author)
Icon Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-84046-665-2 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies.
Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings. Eminent thinkers from many areas of science are turning to this problem, and a wide range of theories are currently on offer. Yet sceptics doubt whether consciousness can be tamed by conventional science, or even can be understood at all. Introducing Consciousness starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. This is the perfect inauguration in a subject widely viewed as the last frontier of science.
Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings. Eminent thinkers from many areas of science are turning to this problem, and a wide range of theories are currently on offer. Yet sceptics doubt whether consciousness can be tamed by conventional science, or even can be understood at all. Introducing Consciousness starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. This is the perfect inauguration in a subject widely viewed as the last frontier of science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 142 mm
Weight
252 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84046-665-2 (9781840466652)
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David Papineau | Howard Selina
Introducing Consciousness
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04/2000
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