Phenomenal consciousness : understanding the relation between experience and neural processes in the brain / / Dimitris Platchias

• Autore: Platchias Dimitris
• Pubblicazione: Durham, UK, : Acumen, 2011; Durham, UK : , : Acumen, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 128.2
• Soggetto topico: Consciousness; Phenomenology; Philosophy of mind
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The nature of the mind; 2. Phenomenal consciousness: the hard problem; 3. Phenomenal consciousness and the ""sufficiency"" claim; 4. Experience and first-order representationalism; 5. Experience and the explanatory gap; 6. Experience and higher-order representationalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one’s experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural processes in the brain. However, although we know that experience arises from a physical basis, we do not have a good explanation of why and how it so arises. The problem of how physical processes give rise to experience is called the “hard problem” of consciousness and it is the contemporary manifestation of the mind–body problem. This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it. It gives a comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon incorporating its main metaphysical and epistemic aspects, as well as recent empirical findings, such as the phenomena of blindsight, change blindness, visual-form agnosia and optic ataraxia, mirror recognition in other primates, split-brain cases and synaesthesia.
• Titolo autorizzato: Phenomenal consciousness
• ISBN: 1-317-49186-6; 1-317-49187-4; 1-315-71141-9; 1-280-12010-X; 9786613524003; 1-84465-480-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966693303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II