Giorgio Vallortigara

The Origins of Consciousness

Thoughts of the Crooked-Headed Fly

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032792132
• ISBN-10: 1032792132
• Artikelnr.: 70148309

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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...