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What makes us conscious? In this eminently readable, thought-provoking text Carter Blakelaw starts by pinning down the essential features of our personal, conscious experience, and examines what purpose is served by our being conscious.
Then, reasoning from what he has established must be true about being conscious, he goes on to describe a mechanism and process that would experience the world in the same way that we experience the world and which, whenever and wherever reproduced, would itself be conscious.
Table of Contents Introduction 1. A Poodle Ate My Homework 2. Life Is a Comic Strip 3. How Do You Explain Anything? 4. As Time Goes By (A Kiss Is Just a Kiss) 5. This See, Is the Conscious Bit 6. Qualia, the Possible and a Particle 7. Evolution and Free Will 8. The Good, the Bad and the Choosy 9. Finally, Making It All Work
A must-read for the curious-minded so read on...
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
What makes us conscious? In this eminently readable, thought-provoking text Carter Blakelaw starts by pinning down the essential features of our personal, conscious experience, and examines what purpose is served by our being conscious.
Then, reasoning from what he has established must be true about being conscious, he goes on to describe a mechanism and process that would experience the world in the same way that we experience the world and which, whenever and wherever reproduced, would itself be conscious.
Table of Contents Introduction 1. A Poodle Ate My Homework 2. Life Is a Comic Strip 3. How Do You Explain Anything? 4. As Time Goes By (A Kiss Is Just a Kiss) 5. This See, Is the Conscious Bit 6. Qualia, the Possible and a Particle 7. Evolution and Free Will 8. The Good, the Bad and the Choosy 9. Finally, Making It All Work
A must-read for the curious-minded so read on...