Consciousness: How Matter Becomes ImaginationWhat goes on in our heads when we have a thought? how do physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to a universe of conscious experience universe that contains everything we feel, everything we know, and everything we are? Scientists and philosophers have pondered these questions for more than two thousand years, but not until now has there been the possibility of answers grounded in scientific experiment. |
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| Titre | Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination |
| Auteurs | Gerald M. Edelman, Giulio Tononi |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Allen Lane, 2000 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 4 août 2009 |
| ISBN | 0713993081, 9780713993080 |
| Longueur | 274 pages |
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