Consciousness: How Matter Becomes ImaginationAllen Lane, 2000 - 192 pages What 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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THE WORLD KNOT | 1 |
Detail from Michelangelos Creation of Adam | 5 |
The Special Problem of Consciousness | 10 |
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