Origins of Consciousness - Thoughts of the Crooked-Headed Fly

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Earthworm Consciousness 2. Robinson, the Caterpillar and the Butterfly 3. The Most Interesting Surface on Earth 4. A Brain for All Seasons 5. Faces, Flowers and Profiles 6. Faces of Memory 7. Big Concepts for Small Brains 8. Information Lies in Differences, and Other Fundamental Principles 9. Neurons Large and Small, in Variously Crowded Spaces 10. The Boundaries of Intelligence 11. A Minimalist Approach to the Issue of Consciousness 12. The Scent of the Rose 13. Primum Movens 14. Early Animals, Early Neurons 15. The Crooked-Headed Fly 16. Imminence of a Revelation 17. Experience, in Brief 18. Hearing the Song of the Cricket that Is not There 19. Tickling Yourself 20. The Corollary Discharge of Thought 21. Feeling and Cogitating 22. Traces of Feeling 23. And So...

About the author

Giorgio Vallortigara is Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Cognition at the University of Trento, Italy. He previously taught at the University of Trieste and was Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at the University of New England in Australia.

Summary

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio Vallortigara, Giorgio (University of Trento Vallortigara, Vallortigara Giorgio
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032792132
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279213-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Animal & Comparative Psychology, Animal behaviour, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Zoology and animal sciences