Consciousness Studies

Print version Consciousness Studies Consciousness studies embraces the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness. Contents Consciousness Studies File size: 13,5MB __TOC__ Introduction /Introduction/ A note on Naive Realism Intended audience and how to read this book Part I: Historical review /Early Ideas/ /Medieval Concepts/ /Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Philosophy/ /Nineteenth To Twenty First Century Philosophy/ Part II: The problem of consciousness What needs to be explained: the description and definition of phenomenal consciousness The conflict - where, when and what? The regression argument The subject-object paradox The homunculus argument Phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness Direct Realism Indirect Realism Dualism Idealism Panpsychism Breaking down the philosophical and scientific problems The philosophical problem of phenomenal consciousness Epiphenomenalism and the problem of change The problem of time The problem of space The problem of qualia Elementary Information and Information Systems Theory Classification, signs, sense, relations, supervenience etc. Qualia and Information Absent and fading qualia Putnam's twin earth thought experiment The Inverted Qualia Argument The Knowledge Argument The problem of machine and digital consciousness Measurement in physics and the preferred basis problem Part III: Neuroscience of consciousness The neuroscience of consciousness Introduction The substrate of experience Neuroanatomy Topological mapping and cortical columns The neurophysiology of sensation and perception Vision Depth perception The cortex and thalamus The cortex and consciousness Perception, Imagination, Memory and Dreams More about Models Blindsight The Role of the Thalamus General Anaesthesia and the Thalamus The function of consciousness Perceptual "filling in" Rivalries and synchronisation Binocular Rivalry, Pattern Rivalry and Binocular Fusion Synchronisation of Neural Processes EEG and synchronisation Event related potentials The integration delay Global Workspace Theory The "cognitive map" and the neural basis of perceptual space /Behaviourism And Consciousness/ /Models Of Access Consciousness/ Neural networks Quantum information processing Part IV: Explanations of Consciousness Contemporary explanations of consciousness The identity theory of mind Scientific theories Functionalism Dualism Intentionalism Higher order thought Eliminativism Mysterianism Idealism and panpsychism Other explanations of consciousness Consciousness-only BioPsychoSociology Model 1 BPS Model Appendices Some physical science for consciousness studies: Ontology of Newtonian physics: kinetic energy and magnetism The origin of the metric tensor Action, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics /Index/ /Notes for the Contributors/ /Contributors/ C Cognitive psychology 100% __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ fr:Études sur la conscience lt:Sąmonė