Introducing Consciousness
A Graphic Guide
Published on 14. March 2015
176 pages
978-1-84831-972-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Introducing Consciousness" provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It 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.
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David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London. Howard Selina is an acclaimed graphic artist.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- What is Consciousness?
- The Indefinability of Consciousness
- What is it Like to be a Bat?
- Experience and Scientific Description
- How Does Consciousness Fit In?
- The First Option: Dualist
- The Second Option: Materialist
- The Third Option: Mysterian
- Hard and Easy Problems
- The Explanatory Gap
- Creature Consciousness
- The Hard Problem is New
- René Descartes' Dualism
- Matter in Motion
- Mind Separate From Matter
- The Pineal Gland
- Berkeley's World of Ideas
- The Idealist Tradition
- Idealism in Britain
- The Scientific Reaction to Idealism
- Behaviourist Psychology
- The Skinner Box
- The Ghost in the Machine
- The Beetle in the Box
- Psychological Functionalists
- Structure Versus Physiology
- The Mind as the Brain's Software
- Variable Realization
- A Physical Basis for Mind
- A Modern Dualist Revival
- A Dualism of Properties
- Descartes' Argument from Possibility
- A Zombie Duplicate
- Leibniz's Argument from Knowledge
- The Modern Argument from Knowledge
- A Dualist Science of Consciousness
- Arguments Against Dualism
- Causal Completeness
- The Demise of Mental Forces
- Newtonian Physics
- Back to Descartes
- Materialist Physiology
- No Separate Mental Causes
- What About Quantum Indeterminism?
- Causal Impotence
- Pre-established Harmony
- Modern Epiphenomenalism
- The Oddity of Epiphenomenalism
- The Materialist Alternative
- Materialism is not Elimination
- The Example from Temperature
- Functionalist Materialism
- Making a Computer Conscious?
- The Turing Test
- The Chinese Room
- Language and Consciousness
- Functionalist Epiphobia
- Mental States are "Wetware"
- Human Chauvinism
- Facing up to the Dualist Arguments
- Zombies are Impossible
- Mysteries of Consciousness
- The Mysterian Position
- A Mysterian Speculation
- Special Concepts of Consciousness
- Everybody Wants a Theory
- Neural Oscillations
- Neural Darwinism
- Re-entrant Loops
- Evolution and Consciousness
- The Purpose of Consciousness
- Quantum Collapses
- How Quantum Physics Differs
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Quantum Consciousness
- Another Link to Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Collapses and Gödel's Theorem
- The Global Workspace Theory
- CAS Information-Processing
- Equal Rights for Extra-Terrestrials
- Intentionality and Consciousness
- Consciousness and Representation
- Explaining Intentionality
- Can We Crack Intentionality?
- Non-Representational Consciousness
- In Defence of Representation
- Non-Conscious Representation
- Panpsychist Representation
- Behaviour without Consciousness
- What versus Where
- The Problem of Blindsight
- HOT Theories
- Criticism of HOT Theories
- Self-Consciousness and Theory of Mind
- The False-Belief Test
- Conscious or Not?
- Cultural Training
- Sentience and Self-Consciousness
- Future Scientific Prospects
- PET and MRI
- A Signature of Consciousness
- The Fly and the Fly-Bottle
- The Dualist Option
- The Materialist Option
- A Question of Moral Concern
- Is There a Final Answer?
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
