Consciousness
A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN:
9780192805850
Publication date:
06/06/2005
Paperback
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ISBN:
9780192805850
Publication date:
06/06/2005
Paperback
Susan Blackmore
Rights: OUP UK (Indian Territory)
Susan Blackmore
Description
Consciousness, the last great mystery for science , has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, lively cartoons, and experiments.Topics include vision and attention, theories of self and will, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs.
Susan Blackmore
Table of contents
- 1 Why the mystery
- 2 The Human Brain
- 3 Time and Space
- 4 A Grand Illusion
- 5 The Self
- 6 Conscious Will
- 7 Altered States of Consciousness
- 8 The Evolution of Consciousness
Susan Blackmore
Features
- A lively, engaging, and authoritative introduction to the hot topic of consciousnessServes as a much-needed launch pad for the further exploration of this complicated, controversial, and unresolved issueChallenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soulA clear overview of the subject that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience--unlike all the other books available on the subjectPart of the VSI series; over 1 million have been sold
Susan Blackmore
Description
Consciousness, the last great mystery for science , has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, lively cartoons, and experiments.Topics include vision and attention, theories of self and will, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs.
Table of contents
- 1 Why the mystery
- 2 The Human Brain
- 3 Time and Space
- 4 A Grand Illusion
- 5 The Self
- 6 Conscious Will
- 7 Altered States of Consciousness
- 8 The Evolution of Consciousness
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