... Pete Mandik's This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction (2013), and Andrew Bailey's (editor) Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers (2014). Some of the most important academic publishers have also produced useful reference guides, ...
... consciousness areas (ffytche, 2000) or sites where consciousness is generated (Chalmers, 2000), and the brain processes involved as those 'that are qualia laden as opposed to those that are not' (Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001, p.
This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation--describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.
Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Christof Koch. CONFESSIONS OF A ROMANTIC REDUCTIONIST CHRBTOFKOCH Consciousness Consciousness Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Christof Koch The. CONSCIOUSNESS Front Cover.
"3 Saul A. Kripke, Naming and Necessity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979). 44 Saul Kripke, “Identity and Necessity,” in Stephen P. Schwartz (ed.), Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ...
The first hint of an answer came at the turn of the century when two scientists working independently , Meyer and Overton , came up with similar observations , with a distinctly culinary flavour . The anaesthetic powers of anaesthetic ...
... Fritz Wolfgang 248 Naccache , Lionel 171 Nadel , Lynn 201 Nagel , Tom 45 natural selection 29 , 30–2 , 60 necessity of consciousness 90 neglect syndrome 215–23 Neisser , Ulrich 195 neocortex 320 neural correlates of consciousness ...
Consciousness 'has a survival value in its own right', says Gray (2004). He rules out epiphenomenalism, arguing that language, science and aesthetic appreciation would all be impossible without conscious experience, and that 'Whatever ...
Journal of Parapsychology, 62, 297–308 Wiseman, R.and Schlitz,M. (1998) Experimenter effectsand the remote detectionof staring. Journal ofParapsychology, 61(3), 197– 208. Wiseman, R., Smith, M. andKornbrot, D. (1996) Exploring possible ...
When psychologist Richard Wiseman re-enacted Victorian seances, his sitters saw objects floating in the dark, felt touches on their skin, heard bells ringing, and were convinced that spirits had been moving among them.
The ventral stream is involved in perception and the dorsal stream in fast visuo-motor control. The ventral stream leads from primary visual cortex forward into the temporal cortex and is involved in building up accurate perceptions of ...
... 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 ...
... SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake SPORT Mike Cronin STARS Andrew King STATISTICS David J. Hand STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING David Blockley STUART BRITAIN John Morrill SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Stephen Blundell SYMANAETRY |an ...
Key Concepts in Philosophy Heather Battaly, Virtue Lisa Bortolotti, Irrationality Joseph Keim Campbell, Free Will Roy T. Cook, Paradoxes Douglas Edwards, Properties Bryan Frances, Disagreement Douglas Kutach, Causation Ian Evans and ...
... G. , 140 , 141 Shoemaker , S. , 66–69 , 141-142 Simak , C. , 146 Simon , H. , 137 Skinner , B. F. , 131-132 Slote ... 115-119 Wall , P. D. , 135 Weiskrantz , L. , 140 " What it's like , " 24 , 50 , 142–143 White , S. , 136 Wimsatt ...
The study of consciousness is recognized as one of the biggest remaining challenges to the scientific community. This book provides a fascinating introduction to the new science that promises to illuminate our understanding of the subject.
Neither does it seem feasible to try to extract P from the concepts of consciousness we now have by some procedure of conceptual analysis¦any more than we could solve the life-matter problem simply by reflecting on the concept life.10 P ...
That very success will, according to this perspective, virtually sculpt their individual conscious lives, ... The dance of consciousness seems uninterrupted to the dancer, yet whole realms of possibility are structurally inaccessible, ...
In my mind, I picture a strange cat looking up at me—mildly I would say, unblinking—blue-gray face surrounded by an aura of ... That might explain the whole scene, even if I had to conjure up a cat to stand in for the true explanation.
This book introduces readers to the contemporary problem of consciousness, providing a clear introduction to the overall landscape and a fair-minded critical survey of various theories of consciousness.