Susan Blackmore

Consciousness (eBook, ePUB)

A Very Short Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. 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 continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192513724
• Artikelnr.: 49418420

Autorenporträt

Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, writer, and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Her research ranges through out-of-body experiences and claims of the paranormal to minds, memes, and the mysteries of consciousness and free will. She is a TED lecturer, blogs for the Guardian and Psychology Today, and frequently appears on radio and TV. Her books include The Meme Machine (OUP, 1999), Conversations on Consciousness (OUP, 2005), Zen and the Art of Consciousness (Oneworld Publications, 2011) and Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-body Experiences (Little Brown, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section One: The problem
1. What's the problem? 2. What's it like to be...? 3. The grand illusion
Section Two: The brain
4. Neuroscience and the correlates of consciousness
5. The theatre of the mind
6. The unity of consciousness
Section Three: Body and world
7. Attention
8. Conscious and unconscious
9. Agency and free will
Section Four: Evolution
10. Evolution and animal minds
11. The function of consciousness
12. The evolution of machines
Section Five: Borderlands
13. Altered states of consciousness
14. Reality and imagination
15. Dreaming and beyond
Section Six: Self and other
16. Egos
bundles
and theories of self
17. The view from within?
18. Waking up