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Why red doesn't sound like a bell : understanding the feel of consciousness / J. Kevin O'Regan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Regan, J. K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness--Physiological aspects.
- Consciousness.
- Senses and sensation--Physiological aspects.
- Senses and sensation.
- Visual perception.
- Consciousness--physiology.
- Sensation.
- Psychomotor Performance.
- Vision, Ocular.
- Visual Perception.
- Feedback, Sensory.
- Medical Subjects:
- Consciousness--physiology.
- Sensation.
- Psychomotor Performance.
- Vision, Ocular.
- Visual Perception.
- Feedback, Sensory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Understanding the feel of consciousness
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans can have the impression of consciously feeling things: for example the red of a sunset, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony, or a pain.
- Contents:
- The catastrophe of the eye
- A new view of seeing
- Applying the new view of seeing
- The illusion of seeing everything
- Some contentious points
- Towards consciousness
- Types of consciousness
- Phenomenal consciousness, or Raw feel, and why they're "hard"
- Squeeze a sponge, drive a porsche : a sensorimotor account of feel
- Consciously experiencing a feel
- The sensorimotor approach to color
- Sensory substitution
- The localization of touch
- The phenomenality plot
- Consciousness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-977747-0
- 1-283-12935-3
- 9786613129352
- OCLC:
- 922970454
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