Phenomenal consciousness : understanding the relation between experience and neural processes in the brain / Dimitris Platchias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platchias, Dimitris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Philosophy of mind.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Summary:

How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural processes in the brain. However, although we know that experience arises from a physical basis, we do not have a good explanation of why and how it so arises. The problem of how physical processes give rise to experience is called the ""hard problem"" of consciousness and it is the contemporary manifes

Contents:

1. The nature of the mind

2. Phenomenal consciousness: the hard problem

3. Phenomenal consciousness and the "sufficiency" claim

4. Experience and first-order representationalism

5. Experience and the explanatory gap

6. Experience and higher-order representationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7735-9467-1

OCLC:

881552347