Understanding consciousness
By: Max Velmans.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Consciousness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-300) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: Mind-body theories and their problems 1; title: 1 What is consciousness? 3; title: 2 Is there a conscious soul in the brain? 9; title: 3 Are mind and matter the same thing? 23; title: 4 Are mind and consciousness just activities? 48; title: 5 Could robots be conscious? 73; title: PART II; title: A new analysis: how to marry science with experience 101; title: 6 Conscious phenomenology and common sense 103; title: 7 Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and; title: the thing itself 139; title: 8 Subjective, intersubjective and objective science 169; title: 9 Consciousness, brains and human information processing 193.