Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
A Biology, Nonfiction, Psychology book. On the delusional theory of consciousness Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up these debates, and the field has now...
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On the delusional theory of consciousness Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
A good survey on the topic. Nothing too provocative versus the other books I've read on this topic recently, including her other book I'm reading re: memes which is much more ambitious. As self-described, this is a "very short introduction". I did get annoyed at her presentation of straw-mans with terms/vocabulary that I don't think... Yes, I am stuck on these wonderful "very short introduction" (VSI) books from Oxford University. This one is the perfect follow-up to the one on free will that I recently reviewed.While the free will book is about logic; how do we think about our consciousness and how can we eliminate false ideas about it through reasoning, this book... Understanding consciousness: A brief reviewWhat is consciousness? How do a set of electrical responses of millions of brain cells produce private, subjective conscious experience? Several theories have been proposed, and they include, grand unifying theories, quantum mechanical theories, biophysical/neurochemical mechanisms, philosophical,...