Consciousness

Description

Consciousness', 'the last great mystery for science', remains 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 continuing the 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, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

First Sentence

The problem of consciousness is related to most of the oldest questions of philosophy: What is the world made of?

Description

A lively introduction that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - written by the top name in the field, Susan Blackmore.

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Other Editions

• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Oxford University Press, USA2005-05-13
• ConsciousnessHodder & Stoughton2003-01-01
• ConsciousnessOxford University Press, USA2003-10-10
• ConsciousnessOxford University Press2005-01-01
• ConsciousnessSterling2010-01-01
• ConsciousnessSterling Publishing Co., Inc.2010-01-01