Consciousness : how matter becomes imagination
With this book, Edelman and Tononi present an empirically-supported full-scale theory of consciousness. They apply the reources and insights of modern neuroscience, from the largest of computer models ever constructed to experiments that detect the changes in brain activity.
192 pages : illustrations
9780713993080, 0713993081
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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
pt. I. The world knot. 1. Consciousness: philosophical paradox or scientific object? ; 2. The special problem of consciousness ; 3. Everyman's private theater: ongoing unity, endless variety
pt. II. Consciousness and the brain. 4. Building a picture of the brain ; 5. Consciousness and distributed neural activity ; 6. Neural activity integrated and differentiated
pt. III. Mechanisms of consciousness: the Darwinian perspective. 7. Selectionism ; 8. Nonrepresentational memory ; 9. Perception into memory: the remembered present
pt. IV. Dealing with plethora: the dynamic core hypothesis. 10. Integration and reenetry ; 11. Consciousness and complexity ; 12. Determining where the knot is tied: the dynamic core hypothesis
pt. V. Untangling the knot. 13. Qualia and discrimination ; 14. The conscious and the unconscious
pt. VI. Observer time. 15. Language and the self ; 16. Thinking ; 17. Prisoners of description
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index