| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-491) and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: how are hallucinations possible? -- Explaining consciousness -- A visit to the phenomenological garden -- A method for phenomenology -- Multiple drafts versus the Cartesian Theater -- Time and experience -- The evolution of consciousness -- How words do things with us -- The architecture of the human mind -- Show and tell -- Dismantling the witness protection program -- Qualia disqualified -- The reality of selves -- Consciousness imagined. |
| Summary |
Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings. |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Mind and body.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Consciousness. (OCoLC)fst00875441
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Mind and body. (OCoLC)fst01021997
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| Added Author |
Weiner, Paul, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0316180653 |
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9780316180658 |
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0316180661 |
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9780316180665 |
| Standard No. |
9780316180665 |
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