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Consciousness : an introduction / Susan Blackmore.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: xi, 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195153421 (alk. paper)
  • 019515343X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 22
LOC classification:
  • BF311 .B534 2004
Contents:
What's the problem? -- What is it like to be? -- What does consciousness do? -- Attention and timing -- The theater of the mind -- The grand illusion -- Egos, bundles and multiple selves -- Theories of self -- Agency and free will -- The evolution of consciousness -- The function of consciousness -- Animal minds -- Minds and machines -- Could a machine be conscious? -- How to build a conscious machine -- The neural correlates of consciousness -- The unity of consciousness -- Damaged brains -- Unconscious processing -- The paranormal -- Reality and imagination -- Drugs and altered states -- Sleep, dreams, and hypnotic states -- Exceptional human experience -- The view from within -- Meditation and mindfulness -- Buddhism and consciousness.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-442) and index.

What's the problem? -- What is it like to be? -- What does consciousness do? -- Attention and timing -- The theater of the mind -- The grand illusion -- Egos, bundles and multiple selves -- Theories of self -- Agency and free will -- The evolution of consciousness -- The function of consciousness -- Animal minds -- Minds and machines -- Could a machine be conscious? -- How to build a conscious machine -- The neural correlates of consciousness -- The unity of consciousness -- Damaged brains -- Unconscious processing -- The paranormal -- Reality and imagination -- Drugs and altered states -- Sleep, dreams, and hypnotic states -- Exceptional human experience -- The view from within -- Meditation and mindfulness -- Buddhism and consciousness.

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