Consciousness Explained - Hardcover

DANIEL C. DENNETT

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713990376 ISBN 13: 9780713990379

Verlag: Allen Lane, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computer-like "virtual machine". Dennett considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0713990376
• ISBN 13: 9780713990379
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar