About the book
Susan Blackmore's textbook brings together the major theories of consciousness, from traditional Western philosophy and neuroscience to quantum theory and Eastern philosophy, in a field long excluded from serious research that has since grown quickly among students of psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. Its nine sections ask how subjective experience arises from objective brain processes and cover the neuroscience of consciousness, altered states, dreams, mystical experiences, and what drugs and meditation do to the mind. The book also considers the nature of the self, whether robots could ever be conscious and whether animals are. Illustrations, profiles of important researchers, self-assessment questions, further reading and practical exercises are included.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb praised it as a complete and clearly written treatment, with graphs and tables, ranging across philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Flaneur)
I am glad to find a complete book dealing with all aspects of consciousness in CLEARLY written format, with graphs and tables to facilitate comprehension. The book covers everything I had seen before from Artificial Intelligence to Philosophy to Neurology to Evolutionary Biology.
Say one wants to get an idea of Dan Dennett's theory of consciousness (without having to get through Dennett's circuitous, unfocused and evasive prose) or Searle's Chinese room argument or Turing's test or Chalmer's position or Churchland's neurophilosophy or a presentation of research on the neural correlates of consciousness...Everything I could think about is there.
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