Consciousness : creeping up on the hard problem / Jeffrey Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Jeffrey Alan.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Neuropsychology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Stances towards the problem of consciousness 1

Chapter 2. The illusory narrative of consciousness 7

2.1 Consciousness comes too late 7

2.2 The world is inside the head 9

2.3 Vision: perception versus action 15

2.4 Illusions of the will 21

Chapter 3. Where science and consciousness meet 27

3.1 Scientific reduction in biology 27

3.2 How does consciousness fit into neuroscience? 33

Chapter 4. Intentionality 35

4.1 The binding problem 35

4.2 Searle's model 39

4.3 The intentionality of conscious experience 40

4.4 Unconscious intentionality? 43

4.5 Harnad's model for categorical representation 50

4.6 Fitting intentionality into biology 52

Chapter 5. Reality and illusion 57

5.1 The unreality of the external world 57

5.2 The paradox of illusion 61

Chapter 6. Enter qualia 65

6.1 Consciousness in animals? 67

6.2 Epiphenomenalism 71

Chapter 7. A survival value for consciousness? 75

7.1 Late error detection 75

7.2 The comparator system 77

7.3 The nature of conscious perception 80

7.4 The evolution of colour vision 85

Chapter 8. Creeping up on the hard problem 89

8.1 The assumptions 89

The scope of conscious experience 89

Perception models enduring features of the world 89

Survival value 90

The necessity of consciousness 90

Animal consciousness 90

Qualia 90

Qualia are constructed by the unconscious brain 91

Conscious experience is selective 91

Conscious experience comes too late to affect on-line processing and action 91

8.2 late error detection vs change blindness 92

8.3 The nature of perception 96

8.4 Remediating error 98

Juxtaposition of controlled variables 98

Contextual disambiguation of action programs 99

Addition of new controlled variables 100

Modification of the value of reinforcers 103

Chapter 9. Epiphenomenalism revisited 107

9.1 Causality and consciousness 107

9.2 Language, science, aesthetics 111

9.3 Ongoing causal efficacy for consciousness? 114

9.4 The evolution and ontogeny of consciousness 117

Chapter 10. Scrutinising functionalism 123

10.1 Foreclosures 123

10.2 Conscious computers? 125

10.3 Conscious robots? 128

10.4 Functionalism 130

10.5 Experiments on synaesthesia 133

10.6 Function vs tissue 135

10.7 Implications of synaesthesia for functionalism 138

10.8 The alien colour effect 140

Chapter 11. From Cartesian theatre to global workspace 149

11.1 Is there a Cartesian theatre? 150

11.2 An egalitarian brain? 155

11.3 Executive functions 161

11.4 The global workspace 164

Chapter 12. The global neuronal workspace 171

12.1 The common communication protocol 171

12.2 Some neuronal specifics 173

Chapter 13. The neural correlate of consciousness 181

13.1 Activity in V1 and visual awareness 182

13.2 The frontal connection 191

Chapter 14. Bottom-up vs top-down processing 195

14.1 Bottom-up and top-down combined 195

14.2 The hippocampus 197

Hippocampal cell fields 197

Spatial mapping 200

Episodic memory 201

A common hippocampal computational function? 206

14.3 Hippocampal function and consciousness 209

Chapter 15. Egocentric space and the parietal lobes 215

15.1 Spatial neglect 215

15.2 Balint's syndrome 223

15.3 Putting space together 225

15.4 The role of V1 in veridical perception 228

15.5 Consciousness in a brain slice? 231

Chapter 16. Taking physics seriously 233

16.1 The Gestalt principles 234

16.2 The Penrose-Hameroff theory 241

16.3 Quantum computation 244

16.4 Objective reduction of the quantum wave function 245

16.5 Descending into the quantum brain 246

16.6 Psychophysical isomorphism 253

16.7 Whence qualia? 255

Chapter 17. Consciousness of self: the point of view 261

17.2 Belongingness 264

Chapter 18. The bodily senses 267

18.1 Intentionality revisited 267

18.2 The approach from the brain stem 269

18.3 Emotion 273

18.4 Signals of error? 277

18.5 Core consciousness 281

18.6 An evolutionary scenario 290

Chapter 19. Responsibility 293

19.1 The sense of agency 293

20.1 The problem: qualia and only qualia 301

20.2 Reduction 304

20.3 The function of conscious experience 308

20.4 Where does the brain create qualia? 314

20.5 Enter quantum mechanics 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-333) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0198520905

OCLC:

55970336