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" Understanding consciousness / "
Max Velmans.
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BL
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964668
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b719038
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Velmans, Max,1942-
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Understanding consciousness /\ Max Velmans.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Philadelphia, PA :: Routledge,, 2000.
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1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :: illustrations
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0203465024
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: 0415186552
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: 0415224926
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: 1280403691
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: 6610403694
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: 9780203465028
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: 9780415186551
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: 9780415224925
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: 9781280403699
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: 9786610403691
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-300) and indexes.
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| Contents
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List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- pt. I. Mind-body theories and their problems. 1. What is consciousness? ; 2. Is there a conscious soul in the brain? ; 3. Are mind and matter the same thing? ; 4. Are mind and consciousness just activities? ; 5. Could robots be conscious? -- pt. II. A new analysis: how to marry science with experience. 6. Conscious phenomenology and common sense ; 7. Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself ; 8. Subjective, intersubjective and objective science ; 9. Consciousness, brains and human information processing -- pt. III. A new synthesis: reflexive monism. 10. What consciousness is ; 11. What consciousness does ; 12. Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
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A new explanation of consciousness that will be of great interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and other professionals concerned with mind/body relationships, and all who care deeply about this subject.
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Consciousness.
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Consciousness.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Mind Body.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Cognitive Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Personality.
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SCIENCE-- Cognitive Science.
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126
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153
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BF311.V44 2000eb
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