Why red doesn't sound like a bell
Subtitle: understanding the feel of consciousness
By: J. Kevin O'Regan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780199775224
Subjects: Ocular Vision; Psychomotor Performance; Consciousness; Visual perception; Visual Perception; Physiology; Physiological aspects
Description: This work proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans can have the impression of consciously feeling things: for example the red of a sunset, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony, or a pain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The catastrophe of the eye; title: A new view of seeing; title: Applying the new view of seeing; title: The illusion of seeing everything; title: Some contentious points; title: Towards consciousness; title: Types of consciousness; title: Phenomenal consciousness, raw feel, and why they're hard; title: Squeeze a sponge, drive a porsche : a sensorimotor account of feel; title: Consciously experiencing a feel; title: The sensorimotor approach to color; title: Sensory substitution; title: The localization of touch; title: The phenomenality plot; title: Consciousness.