Introducing Consciousness

Download or read book Introducing Consciousness written by David Papineau and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL) Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Erwin Schrodinger's cat.