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Consciousness: An Introduction
β Scribed by Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko
- Publisher
- Routledge NY
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 640
- Edition
- 3
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness?
Or is consciousness itself an illusion?
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Boxes
Prefaces
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section One The problem
1 Whatβs the problem?
2 What is it like to be . . .?
3 The grand illusion
Section Two The brain
4 Neuroscience and the correlates of consciousness
5 The theatre of the mind
6 The unity of consciousness
Section Three Body and world
7 Attention
8 Conscious and unconscious
9 Agency and free will
Section Four Evolution
10 Evolution and animal minds
11 The function of consciousness
12 The evolution of machines
Section Five Borderlands
13 Altered states of consciousness
14 Reality and imagination
15 Dreaming and beyond
Section Six Self and other
16 Egos, bundles, and theories of self
17 The view from within?
18 Waking up
References
Index
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