Explaining Consciousness The Hard Problem

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ISBN: 9780262692212 | 026269221X
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Copyright: 1/22/1999

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Why doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dark," without any consciousness at all? In this book philosophers, physicists, psychologists, neurophysiologists, computer scientists, and others address this central topic in the growing discipline of consciousness studies.

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Introduction	p. 1
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness	p. 9
Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness	p. 33
The Hornswoggle Problem	p. 37
Function and Phenomenology: Closing the Explanatory Gap	p. 45
The Why of Consciousness: A Non-Issue for Materialists	p. 61
There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness	p. 69
Should We Expect to Feel as if We Understand Consciousness?	p. 83
Consciousness and Space	p. 97
Giving Up on the Hard Problem of Consciousness	p. 109
There Are No Easy Problems of Consciousness	p. 117
The Easy Problems Ain't So Easy	p. 125
Facing Ourselves: Incorrigibility and the Mind-Body Problem	p. 133
The Hardness of the Hard Problem	p. 149
The Nonlocality of Mind	p. 165
Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections	p. 177
The Hard Problem: A Quantum Approach	p. 197
Physics, Machines and the Hard Problem	p. 217
Why Neuroscience May Be Able to Explain Consciousness	p. 237
Understanding Subjectivity: Global Workspace Theory and the Resurrection of the Observing Self	p. 241
The Elements of Consciousness and Their Neurodynamical Correlates	p. 249
Consciousness, Information and Panpsychism	p. 269
Rethinking Nature: A Hard Problem within the Hard Problem	p. 287
Solutions to the Hard Problem of Consciousness	p. 301
Turning 'the Hard Problem' Upside Down and Sideways	p. 305
The Relation of Consciousness to the Material World	p. 325
Neurophenomenology: A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem	p. 337
The Hard Problem: Closing the Empirical Gap	p. 359
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness	p. 379
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