Consciousness
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Susan Blackmore
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Very short introductions -- 121
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780198794738
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Consciousness
Description: Consciousness', 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.
Notes: First edition published 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.