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Understanding consciousness / Max Velmans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Velmans, Max, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Mind and body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A new explanation of consciousness that will be of great interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and other professionals concerned with mind/body relationships, and all who care deeply about this subject.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mind-body theories and their problems; What is consciousness?; Is there a conscious soul in the brain?; Are mind and matter the same thing?; Are mind and consciousness just activities?; Could robots be conscious?; A new analysis: how to marry science with experience; Conscious phenomenology and common sense; Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself; Subjective, intersubjective and objective science; Consciousness, brains and human information processing
- A new synthesis: reflexive monismWhat consciousness is; What consciousness does; Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe; References; Name index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-300) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-46502-4
- 1-280-40369-1
- 9780203465028
- OCLC:
- 437074688
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