Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

The world knot. Consciousness : philosophical paradox or scientific object? ; The special problem of consciousness ; Everyman's private theater : ongoing unity, endless variety -- Consciousness and the brain. Building a picture of the brain ; Consciousness and distributed neural activity ; Neural activity integrated and differentiated -- Mechanisms of consciousness : the Darwinian perspective. Selectionism ; Nonrepresentational memory ; Perception into memory : the remembered present -- Dealing with plethora : the dynamic core hypothesis. Integration and reenetry ; Consciousness and complexity ; Determining where the knot is tied : the dynamic core hypothesis -- Untangling the knot. Qualia and discrimination ; The conscious and the unconscious -- Observer time. Language and the self ; Thinking ; Prisoners of description.