Phenomenal Consciousness

Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain

AvDimitris Platchias

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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 don't 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 manifestation of the mind-body problem. This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it. It gives a comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon incorporating its main metaphysical and epistemic aspects, as well as recent empirical findings, such as the phenomenon of blindsight, change blindness, visual-form agnosia and optic ataraxia, mirror recognition in other primates, split-brain cases and synaesthesia.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781844652495

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Dimitris Platchias is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Essex and lectures in Philosophy at Glasgow University. He is co-editor of Representationalism: An Anthology and Hallucination.

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Innehållsförteckning

1. The Nature of Mentality 2. Phenomenal Consciousness 3. The Explanatory Gap 4. Naturalising Phenomenal Consciousness 5. Representationalist Approaches to Phenomenal Consciousness 6. Phenomenal Consciousness and Non-Conceptual Content Notes Bibliography Index.

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