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Consciousness demystified
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Consciousness demystified/ Todd E. Feinberg, Jon M. Mallatt. |
| 개인저자 | Feinberg, Todd E.,author. Mallatt, Jon M.,author, |
| 발행사항 | Cambridge: The MIT Press, [2018]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Feinberg, Todd E. Consciousness demystified. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] 9780262038812 |
| ISBN | 9780262349390 0262349396 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | What Makes Consciousness "Mysterious"? -- Approaching the Gaps: Images and Affects -- Naturalizing Vertebrate Consciousness: Mental Images -- Naturalizing Vertebrate Consciousness: Affects -- The Question of Invertebrate Consciousness -- Creating Consciousness: The General and Special Features -- The Evolution of Primary Consciousness and the Cambrian Hypothesis -- Naturalizing Subjectivity. |
| 요약 | Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accounting for the subjective experiences that come from the brain (and life processes). In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt attempt to demystify consciousness -- to naturalize it, by explaining that the subjective, experiencing aspects of consciousness are created by natural brain processes that evolved in natural ways. Although subjective experience is unique in nature, they argue, it is not necessarily mysterious. We need not invoke the unknown or unknowable to explain its creation. Feinberg and Mallatt flesh out their theory of neurobiological naturalism (after John Searle's biological naturalism ) that recognizes the many features that brains share with other living things, lists the neural features unique to conscious brains, and explains the subjective -- objective barrier naturally. They investigate common neural features among the diverse groups of animals that have primary consciousness -- the type of consciousness that experiences both sensations received from the world and affects such as emotions. They map the evolutionary development of consciousness and find an uninterrupted progression over time, without inserting any mysterious forces or exotic physics. Finally, bridging the previously unbridgeable, they show how subjective experience, although different from objective observation, can be naturally explained. |
| 일반주제명 | Consciousness --History. Evolution. Consciousness. PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology SCIENCE / Cognitive Science |
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