The Conscious Mind (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
432
Utgivningsdatum
1996-08-01
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustrationer
line figures
Dimensioner
244 x 163 x 36 mm
Vikt
763 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
xviii414
ISBN
9780195105537

The Conscious Mind

In Search of a Fundamental Theory

av David J Chalmers
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1996-08-01
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What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers. Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalmers offers a cogent analysis of this heated debate as he unveils a major new theory of consciousness.

Writing in a rigorous, thought-provoking style, the author takes us on a far-reaching tour through the philosophical ramifications of consciousness. Chalmers convincingly reveals how contemporary cognitive science and neurobiology have failed to explain how and why mental events emerge from physiological occurrences in the brain. He proposes instead that conscious experience must be understood in an entirely new light - as an irreducible entity (similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space) that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts. And after suggesting some intriguing possibilities about the structure and laws of conscious experience, he details how his unique reinterpretation of the mind could be the focus of a new science.

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Times Higher Education Supplement The book is very well argued, thorough, sophisticated, honest, stimulating... It is certainly one of the best discussions of consciousness in existence, both as an advanced text and as an introduction to the issues.

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I. PRELIMINARIES; 1. Two Concepts of Mind; 2. Supervenience and Explanation; II. THE IRREDUCIBILITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS; 3. Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained?; 4. Naturalistic Dualism; 5. The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment; III. TOWARD A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS; 6. The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition; 7. Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia; 8. Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation; IV. APPLICATIONS; 9. Strong Artificial Intelligence; 10. The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics; Notes; Bibliography

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