1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996279804403316

Titolo

Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, IEEE International Workshop on

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IEEE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960366603321

Autore

Blackmore Susan J. <1951->

Titolo

Consciousness : an introduction / / Susan Blackmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-78398-0

1-282-91461-8

9786612914614

1-4441-2827-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (555 p.)

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Consciousness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section One: The problem; Section Two: The world; Section Three: The self; Section Four: The brain; Section Five: Evolution; Section Six: Artificial consciousness; Section Seven: Borderlands; Section Eight: Altered states of consciousness; Section Nine: First-person approaches; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is a topic that was banned from serious research for most of the last century, but is now an area of increasing popular



interest, as well as a rapidly expanding area of study for students of psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. This ground-breaking textbook by best-selling author Susan Blackmore was the first of its kind to bring together all the major theories of consciousness studies, from those based on neuroscience to those based