Introducing Consciousness
by David Papineau
Year
2005
ISBN No.
9781840466652
No.of pages
176
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Introduction Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciosness studies. It starts with the 'hard problem' of the philosophical relation between minds and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the ways, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghost in machines and Schrodinger's cat. This is the perfect introduction for anybody who wants to know all about consciousness but doesn't know where to start.
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