The mysterious flame: conscious minds in a material world

"Is consciousness nothing more than the result of neurons firing through brain tissue? Or is it, as some claim, a fundamental reality like space, time and matter? In recent years the nature of consciousness - our immediately known experiences - has taken its place as the most profound problem i...

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1. Verfasser: McGinn, Colin 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Basic Books 1999
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Zusammenfassung:"Is consciousness nothing more than the result of neurons firing through brain tissue? Or is it, as some claim, a fundamental reality like space, time and matter? In recent years the nature of consciousness - our immediately known experiences - has taken its place as the most profound problem in the scientific discourse. Now in this new book, Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this perplexing problem."--BOOK JACKET. "Arguing that we can never truly "know" consciousness - that the human intellect is simply not equipped to unravel this mystery - he demonstrates that accepting this limitation in fact opens up a whole new field of investigation. Indeed, he asserts, consciousness is the best place from which to begin to understand the internal make-up of human intelligence, to investigate our cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and to explore the possibility of machine minds."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XIII, 242 S.
ISBN:0465014232
0465014224
9780465014231

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