The Mystery of Consciousness - Softcover

Searle, John R.

 
9780940322066: The Mystery of Consciousness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0940322064 ISBN 13: 9780940322066
Verlag: New York Review Books, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body?

In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, and Israel Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functions can be reproduced by computer programs. With a sharp eye for confusion and contradiction, he points out which avenues of current research are most likely to come up with a biological examination of how conscious states are caused by the brain.

Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John R. Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at 
the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is ­Making the Social World.
 (October 2014)

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
New York Review Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0940322064
ISBN 13 
9780940322066
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Kontakt zum Hersteller
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
Niedersachsen
49078
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781862071223: The Mystery of Consciousness

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1862071225 ISBN 13:  9781862071223
Verlag: GB Gardners Books, 1998
Softcover