Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell
Understanding the feel of consciousness
Published on 1. August 2011
240 pages
978-0-19-977747-1 (ISBN)
Description
The book starts by analyzing the problem of how we can see so well despite what, to an engineer, might seem like horrendous defects of our eyes. An explanation is provided by a new way of thinking about seeing, the "sensorimotor" approach. In the second part of the book the sensorimotor approach is extended to all sensory experience. It is used to elucidate an outstanding mystery of consciousness, namely why, unlike today's robots, humans actually can feel things. The approach makes predictions and opens research avenues, among them the phenomena of change blindness, sensory substitution, and "looked but failed to see", as well as results on color naming and color perception and the localisation of touch on the body.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- PART ONE: The Feel of Seeing
- 1. The Catastrophe of the Eye
- 2. A New View of Seeing
- 3. Applying the New View of Seeing
- 4. The Illusion of Seeing Everything
- 5. Some Contentious Points
- PART TWO: The Feel of Consciousness
- 6. Toward Consciousness
- 7. Types of Consciousness
- 8. Phenomenal Consciousness, or Raw Feel, and Why They're "Hard"
- 9. Squeeze a Sponge, Drive a Porsche: A Sensorimotor Account of Feel
- 10. Consciously Experiencing a Feel
- 11. The Sensorimotor Approach to Color
- 12. Sensory Substitution
- 13. The Localization of Touch
- 14. The Phenomenality Plot
- 15. Consciousness
- References
- Author Index
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- Subject Index
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