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Zusatztext The Conscious Brain is highly readable throughout and offers a detailed and balanced overview of the relevant scientific literature. The arguments it presents are sophisticated, subtle, and engaging, and interrelated in such a way that it gives us a glimmer of hope that one day we will discover a complete theory of consciousness ... Now go buy a copy and give your braina treat! Informationen zum Autor Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center Klappentext Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Zusammenfassung Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I. A Theory of Consciousness Chapter 1. Do We Really Need Another Theory of Consciousness? Chapter 2. Which States Are Conscious? The Intermediate Level Chapter 3. When Are We Conscious? Attention and Availability Part II. The Limits of Consciousness Chapter 4. Does Consciousness Outstrip Perception? A Restrictive View Chapter 5. Why Are We Conscious? Action without Enaction Chapter 6. Whose Conscious States Are These? The Illusory Self Part III. The Metaphysics of Consciousness Chapter 7. How Is Consciousness Unified? Attentional Resonance Chapter 8. What Is Consciousness? Neural Correlates and Nuerofunctionalism Chapter 9. Could Consciousness Be Physical? The Brain Maintained Conclusion: AIR Compared
