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THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BINDING, INTEGRATION, AND DISSOCIATION |
| By: |
Axel Cleeremans (Editor), Chris Frith |
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Hardback |
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£70.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198508573 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198508571 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 June, 2003 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Consciousness has many elements - from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensation, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, emotion, memory, and thought. With all these facets - how can consciousness appear to us as a unified experience? Is this apparent unity just an illusion? Why and when does this unity break down? In recent years many have attempted to answer this, one of the most puzzling and intriguing dimensions of consciousness. Withchapters from leading thinkers on consciousness, from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy this is a thought-provoking book that attempts to answer some of the big questions. |
| Synopsis: |
Consciousness has many elements, from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensation, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, emotion, memory, and thought. The apparent unity of these elements is striking; all are presented to us as experiences of a single subject, and all seem to be contained within a unified field of experience. But this apparent unity raises many questions. How do diverse systems in the brain co-operate to produce a unified experience? Are there conditions under which this unity breaks down? Is conscious experience really unified at all? In recent years, these questions have been addressed by researchers in many fields, including, neurophysiologists and computational modellers, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. With chapters from some of the leading thinkers on consciousness, this is a thought-provoking book that attempts to answer some of the big questions.Contributors include - Chris Frith, David Chalmers, Guilio Tononi, Anne Treisman, Andrew Young, Sydney Shoemaker, Glyn Humphreys, Rodney Cotterill, Zoltan Dienes, Susan Hurley, Randall O'Reilly, Andreas Engel, Pierre Perruchet, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, and Francisco Varela. |
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numerous figures and tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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