Exploring consciousness

Carter, Rita 1949- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0520237374 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
320 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Some (Possibly) Boring but Important Notes on Language -- 1. A Stream of Illusion. Vision - The Grand Illusion / J. Kevin O'Regan. The Higher-Order Thought Model of Consciousness / David Rosenthal -- 2. The Hard Problem. Facing up to Consciousness / David Chalmers. Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness / Daniel Dennett. Solving the Hard Problem - Naturally / John Searle. A Quantum Description of Mind / Andrew Duggins -- 3. The Old Steam Whistle Test. The Making of Mind / Nicholas Humphrey -- 4. Making Consciousation -- 5. Consciousness and the Brain. The Network Mind / John Skoyles -- 6. The Conscious Body. What do Robots Think About? / Igor Aleksander and Rita Carter. The Primordial SELF / Jaak Panksepp -- 7. The Conscious Self. Ownership and Agency / Chris Frith. Predicting the Present / Jeffrey Gray. Meme Machines and Consciousness / Susan Blackmore -- 8. Fractured Consciousness -- 9. A Conscious Universe? Quantum Minds / Stuart Hameroff and Alwyn Scott.