"An excellent book" Ted Honderich
Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings. Eminent thinkers
from many areas of science are turning to this problem, and a wide range of
theories are currently on offer. Yet sceptics doubt whether consciousness
can be tamed by conventional science, or even can be understood at all.
Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the
philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific
attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral
computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrödinger?s cat. This is the perfect inauguration in a subject widely viewed as the last frontier of science.
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