Toward a science of consciousness III : the third Tucson discussions and debates / edited by Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, David J. Chalmers. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hameroff, Stuart R.

Kaszniak, Alfred W., 1949-

Chalmers, David John, 1966-

Series:

Complex adaptive systems

Complex adaptive systems Toward a science of consciousness III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness--Congresses.

Consciousness.

Cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Consciousness.

Cognition.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 504 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Can there be a science of consciousness? This issue has been the focus of three landmark conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the third conference. It showcases recent progress in this maturing field by researchers from philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, phenomenology, and physics."--Jacket.

Contents:

Conceivability, identity, and the explanatory gap / Joseph Levine

Conceiving beyond our means : the limits of thought experiments / Robert Van Gulick

Realistic materialist monism / Galen Strawson

On the intrinsic nature of the physical / Gregg H. Rosenberg

Of color and consciousness / Stephen Palmer

Color quality and color structure / C. Larry Hardin

Pseudonormal vision and color qualia / Martine Nida-Rumelin

Toward a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness / Antti Revonsuo

Neural correlates of hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness / F.X. Vollenweider, A. Gamma and M.F.I. Vollenweider-Scherpenhuyzen

First steps toward a theory of mental force : PET imaging of systematic cerebral changes after psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder / Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The visual brain in action / A. David Milner and Melvyn A. Goodale

In search of immaculate perception : evidence from motor representations of space / Yves Rossetti

Attending, seeing, and knowing in blindsight / Robert W. Kentridge, C.A. Heywood and Larry Weiskrantz

Insights into blindsight / A. David Milner

From grasping to language : mirror neurons and the origin of social communication / Vittorio Gallese

Supporting the "grand illusion" of direct perception : implicit learning in eye-movement control / Frank H. Durgin

Selective peripheral fading : how attention leads to loss of visual consciousness / Lianggang Lou

Conscious experience and autonomic response to emotional stimuli following frontal lobe damage / Alfred Kaszniak [and others]

At the intersection of emotion and consciousness : affective neuroscience and extended reticular thalamic activating system (ERTAS) theories of consciousness / Douglas F. Watt.

Laughing rats? : playful tickling arouses high-frequency ultrasonic chirping in young rodents / Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Burgdorf

The privatization of sensation / Nicholas Humphrey

Flagging the present moment with qualia / Richard L. Gregory

If qualia evolved

/ A. Graham Cairns-Smith

Handaxes and Ice Age carvings : hard evidence for the evolution of consciousness / Steven Mithen

Ephemeral levels of mental organization : Darwinian competitions as a basis for consciousness / William H. Calvin

What does quantum mechanics imply about the nature of the universe? / Shimon Malin

Quantum monadology / Kunio Yasue

The interface in a mixed quantum/classical model of brain function / Scott Hagan and Masayuki Hirafuji

Do apparent temporal anomalies require nonclassical explanation? / Stanley A. Klein

A quantum physics model of the timing of conscious experience / Fred A. Wolf

Conscious and anomalous nonconscious emotional processes : a reversal of the arrow of time? / Dick J. Bierman and Dean Radin

Exploring actuality through experiment and experience / Piet Hut

Intersubjectivity : exploring consciousness from the second-person perspective / Christian de Quincey

Goethe and the phenomenological investigation of consciousness / Arthur Zajonc

Essential dimensions of consciousness : objective, subjective, and intersubjective / Frances Vaughan

Training the attention and exploring consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism / B. Alan Wallace

Transpersonal and cognitive psychologies of consciousness : a necessary and reciprocal dialogue / Harry T. Hunt.

Biogenetic structural theory and the neurophenomenology of consciousness / Charles D. Laughlin

Experiential clarification of the problem of the self / Jonathan Shear.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-28802-8

0-585-37586-0