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Consciousness :confessions of a romantic reductionist
"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part…
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- 9780262301787
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- 1 online resource (xii, 181 pages)
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Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality
"This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship between communicative heuristics and thought. The…
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- 9780262335119
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) :illustrations
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I of the vortex : from neurons to self
"A Bradford book."In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the 'mindness state' evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the 'sea squirt.' The mobile …
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- 1st ed.
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- 9780262278454
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- 1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations
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- 100 LLI i
Neural correlates of consciousness :empirical and conceptual questions
"A Bradford book."This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain. The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the target phenomenon--the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is always tied to…
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- 9780262279734
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- 1 online resource (vi, 350 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Mental reality (Second Edition, With A New Appendix)
"A Bradford book.""In Mental reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative …
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- 2nd ed., with a new appendix.
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- 9780262259224
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- 1 online resource (xx, 373 pages) :illustrations.
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Describing inner experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic
A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method. Can conscious experience be described accura…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages).
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Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285322
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) :illustrations.
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The conscious mind
An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech."How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essent…
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- 9780262319300
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- 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages).
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Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective
A Bradford book."The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286596
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- 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)
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Onflow :dynamics of consciousness and experience
"A Bradford book."Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Searle, and Gerald Edelman.In Onflow, Ralph Pred supplies an account of the nature of consciousness that grapples with "the raw unverbalized…
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- 9780262281881
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- 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages)
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