Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Susan Blackmore
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? This book attempts to clarify the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, cartoons, and experiments.
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A very thought-provoking book. The Guardian
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1. Why the mystery; 2. The Human Brain; 3. Time and Space; 4. A Grand Illusion; 5. The Self; 6. Conscious Will; 7. Altered States of Consciousness; 8. The Evolution of Consciousness
General Fields
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- : 0.142
- : 24 March 2005
- : 174mm X 111mm X 9mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Susan Blackmore
- : Paperback
- : 153
- : 156
- : 3 halftones, 3 line drawings and numerous illustrations