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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--Interviews.
- Neuroscientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Human brains are just the most complicated thing that's yet evolved, and we're trying to understand them using our brains," notes philosopher Daniel Dennett. "We're trying to reverse engineer ourselves, to understand what kind of a machine we are." In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore brings together some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding "what kind of a machine we are." Some of the interviewees are major philosophers (such as JohnSearle, Ned Block, and David Chalmers) and some are equ
- Contents:
- Bernard Baars
- Ned Block
- David Chalmers
- Patricia and Paul Churchland
- Francis Crick
- Daniel Dennett
- Susan Greenfield
- Richard Gregory
- Stuart Hameroff
- Christof Koch
- Stephen LaBerge
- Thomas Metzinger
- Kevin O'Regan
- Roger Penrose
- Vilayanur Ramachandran
- John Searle
- Petra Stoerig
- Francisco Varela
- Max Velmans
- Daniel Wegner.
- Notes:
- Interviews.
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-70445-4
- 0-19-803989-1
- 1-4237-4659-7
- OCLC:
- 476006710
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