A broad review of the mind-brain debate. A survey of strategies employed by biologists in building a science of life. Rosenberg thinks that logical anomalies of the intentional language constitute a good reason to omit intentional phenomena from science. Rosenblatt extended the model of the binary neuron to connections with continous values which are changing dynamically. An account of consciousness based on clinical cases.
Memory is impossible without consciousness.
Memory is not simply a storage mechanism, it is a continuing brain activity. Contains J.J. Smart's 1959 paper in defense of the identity theory of the mind. A monumental reader on the mind, collecting some of the most influential papers ever written on the subject, starting with Descartes and ending with Searle's chinese room experiment. Armostrong, Smart, Putnam, Lewis, Block, Kripke, Davidson, Kim, Quine, Chisholm, Fodor, Dennett, Dretske, Sellars, Nagel, Searle, Churchland, Stich and many others are represented with some of their writings. A survey, written by international experts, of experimental neurophysiological and psychological findings.