Consciousness
An Introduction
ISBN13: 9780195153439ISBN10: 019515343X
Paperback,
480 pages
Oct 2003,
In Stock
Price:
$59.95 (04)Table of Contents
Boxes and Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Problem
1.
What's the Problem?
2.
What Is It Like To Be...?
3.
What Does Consciousness Do?
2. The World
4.
Attention and Timing
5.
The Theater of the Mind
6.
The Grand Illusion
3. The Self
7.
Egos, Bundles and Multiple Selves
8.
Theories of Self
9.
Agency and Free Will
4. Evolution
10.
The Evolution of Consciousness
11.
The Function of Consciousness
12.
Animal Minds
5. Artificial Consciousness
13.
Minds and Machines
14.
Could a Machine Be Conscious?
15.
How to Build a Conscious Machine
6. The Brain
16.
The Neural Correlates of Consciousness
17.
The Unity of Consciousness
18.
Damaged Brains
7. Borderlands
19.
Unconscious Processing
20.
The Paranormal
21.
Reality and Imagination
8. Altered States of Consciousness
22.
Drugs and Altered States
23.
Sleep, Dreams and Hypnotic States
24.
Exceptional Human Experience
9. First-Person Approaches
25.
The View from Within
26.
Meditation and Mindfulness
27.
Buddhism and Consciousness
References
Index
