The mysterious flame
conscious minds in a material world
1st ed.
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Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL102789M
- ISBN-100465014224
- OCLC Control Number41355997
- OCLC Control Number90035914
- OCLC Control Numbermysteriousflamec0000mcgi
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99218327
- Goodreads1138228
- LibraryThing58149
Classifications
- DDC126
- LCCB808.9 .M35 1999
Description
"Is consciousness nothing more than the result of neurons firing through brain tissue? Or is it, as some claim, a fundamental reality like space, time and matter? In recent years the nature of consciousness - our immediately known experiences - has taken its place as the most profound problem in the scientific discourse. Now in this new book, Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this perplexing problem."--BOOK JACKET. "Arguing that we can never truly "know" consciousness - that the human intellect is simply not equipped to unravel this mystery - he demonstrates that accepting this limitation in fact opens up a whole new field of investigation. Indeed, he asserts, consciousness is the best place from which to begin to understand the internal make-up of human intelligence, to investigate our cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and to explore the possibility of machine minds."--BOOK JACKET.
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