Wider than the sky : the phenomenal gift of consciousness /
"Dr. Gerald M. Edelman draws on a lifetime of scientific inquiry into the workings of the brain to formulate answers to the mind-body questions that intrigue all thinking people. In direct, non-technical language, he explains pertinent facts about neuroscience and describes how consciousness ar...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- The mind of man: completing Darwin's program
- Consciousness: the remembered present
- Elements of the brain
- Neural Darwinism: a global brain theory
- The mechanisms of consciousness
- Wider than the sky: qualia, unity, and complexity
- Consciousness and causation: the phenomenal transform
- The conscious and the nonconscious: automaticity and attention
- Higher-order consciousness and representation
- Theory and the properties of consciousness
- Identity: the self, mortality, and value
- Mind and body: some consequences.