TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edelman,Gerald M.
AU  - Tononi,Giulio
TI  - Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination 
SN  - 0140281479
AV  - QP411 .E345 2000
U1  - 612.8/2 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Brain
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Thought and thinking
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Pt. I. The world knot. 1. Consciousness: philosophical paradox or scientific object? ; 2. The special problem of consciousness ; 3. Everyman's private theater: ongoing unity, endless variety -- Pt. II. Consciousness and the brain. 4. Building a picture of the brain ; 5. Consciousness and distributed neural activity ; 6. Neural activity integrated and differentiated -- Pt. III. Mechanisms of consciousness: the Darwinian perspective. 7. Selectionism ; 8. Nonrepresentational memory ; 9. Perception into memory: the remembered present -- Pt. IV. Dealing with plethora: the dynamic core hypothesis. 10. Integration and reenetry ; 11. Consciousness and complexity ; 12. Determining where the knot is tied: the dynamic core hypothesis -- Pt. V. Untangling the knot. 13. Qualia and discrimination ; 14. The conscious and the unconscious -- Pt. VI. Observer time. 15. Language and the self ; 16. Thinking ; 17. Prisoners of description -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
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