Wider than the sky : the phenomenal gift of consciousness / / Gerald M. Edelman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 201 p. :; ill. |
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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.