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Conversations on consciousness : what the best minds think about the brain, free will, and what it means to be human / Susan Blackmore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackmore, Susan J., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Philosophers--Interviews.
- Philosophers.
- Neuroscientists.
- Neuroscientists--Interviews.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Ranging from the curious (do bees have consciousness?) to the profound (is our sense of having a self just an illusion), these provocative conversations with eminent philosophers illuminate current thinking on the mind and on human nature itself.
- Contents:
- Bernard Baars 11
- Ned Block 24
- David Chalmers 36
- Patricia and Paul Churchland 50
- Francis Crick 68
- Daniel Dennett 79
- Susan Greenfield 92
- Richard Gregory 104
- Stuart Hameroff 115
- Christof Koch 125
- Stephen LaBerge 137
- Thomas Metzinger 149
- Kevin O'Regan 160
- Roger Penrose 173
- Vilayanur Ramachandran 186
- John Searle 198
- Petra Stoerig 213
- Francisco Varela 222
- Max Velmans 233
- Daniel Wegner 245.
- Notes:
- Interviews.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0195179587
- OCLC:
- 62555307
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