R. Tallis
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 1999
9780312224189
The Explicit Animal
A Defence of Human Consciousness
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Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
1999
ISBN13: 9780312224189
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Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780312224189
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Preface to the 1993 Reprint Overture Losing Consciousness Biologising Consciousness I: Evolutionary Theories Biologising Consciousness II: The Casual Theory of Perception Appendix: The Language of Neuromythology with Special Reference to 'Information' Computerising Consciousness Emptying Consciousness: Functionalism Man, the Explicit Animal Recovering Consciousness Notes and References Index