Introducing Consciousness - Softcover

Papineau, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840466650 ISBN 13: 9781840466652

Verlag: Icon Books, 2005

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Book by Papineau David

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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.

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Introducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to explain consciousness. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat.

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• Verlag: Icon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1840466650
• ISBN 13: 9781840466652
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176