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Soul Dust : The Magic of Consciousness / / Nicholas Humphrey



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Autore: Humphrey Nicholas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Soul Dust : The Magic of Consciousness / / Nicholas Humphrey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 126
Soggetto topico: Consciousness
Soggetto non controllato: Aldous Huxley
Analogy
Anthony Marcel
Anthropologist
Behavior
Buddhism
Cheating death
Childlessness
Chimpanzee
Christopher Isherwood
Concept
Consciousness
Culture
Daniel Dennett
Death anxiety (psychology)
Decision-making
Delay differential equation
Developmental psychology
Douglas Hofstadter
Dualism (philosophy of mind)
Dylan Evans
Emergence
Enthusiasm
Existence
Explanation
Faber and Faber
Feeling
George Santayana
God
Hard problem of consciousness
Heat death of the universe
Human
Illustration
Incorruptibility
Indication (medicine)
Individualism
Individuation
Ineffability
Instance (computer science)
Instant
Intentionality
Johansson
Lecture
Literary agent
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Matt Ridley
Mental representation
Mescaline
Midwife
Mortality salience
Narrative
Niche construction
Penguin Books
Perception
Personhood
Pessimism
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophical zombie
Philosophy
Pity
Precognition
Principle
Probability
Psychology
Qualia
Reality
Reason
Religion
Requirement
Ross Anderson
Rupert Sheldrake
Ruth Brandon
Science
Scientist
Self-concept
Self-consciousness
Self-image
Seminar
Sense
Special Period
Spirituality
Stimulation
Strange loop
Suffering
Suggestion
Termite
Terror management theory
The Dog Beneath the Skin
The Philosopher
The Various
Theory
Thomas Kuhn
Thought experiment
Thought
Uncertainty
Uniqueness
Visual system
W. H. Auden
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Invitation -- Prelude -- 1. Coming-to Explained -- Part One -- 2. Being "Like Something" -- 3. Sentitition -- 4. Looping the Loop -- Part two -- 5. So What? -- 6. Being There -- 7. The Enchanted World -- 8. So That Is Who I Am! -- 9. Being Number One -- Part Three -- 10. Entering the Soul Niche -- 11. Dangerous Territory -- 12. Cheating Death -- Envoi -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us and makes us feel special and transcendent. Thus consciousness paves the way for spirituality, and allows us, as human beings, to reap the rewards, and anxieties, of living in what Humphrey calls the "soul niche.? Tightly argued, intellectually gripping, and a joy to read, Soul Dust provides answers to the deepest questions. It shows how the problem of consciousness merges with questions that obsess us all--how life should be lived and the fear of death. Resting firmly on neuroscience and evolutionary theory, and drawing a wealth of insights from philosophy and literature, Soul Dust is an uncompromising yet life-affirming work--one that never loses sight of the majesty and wonder of consciousness.
Titolo autorizzato: Soul Dust  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-00132-2
9786613001320
1-4008-3807-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820995303321
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