Tag: Consciousness

As consciousness is harnessed to flesh journals and notebooks, 1964-1980


Free Download As consciousness is harnessed to flesh : journals and notebooks, 1964-1980 By Sontag, Susan; Sontag, Susan; Rieff, David
2012 | 523 Pages | ISBN: 0374100764 | EPUB | 1 MB
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer’s artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.

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Brain, Self and Consciousness Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (2024)


Free Download Sangeetha Menon, "Brain, Self and Consciousness: Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 3)"
English | 2013 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 813221580X, 813223488X | PDF | 2,0 mb
This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussions that this book presents are: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

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The Nature of Consciousness Philosophical Debates


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English | 1997 | ISBN: 0262023997 | 608 Pages | PDF | 16.4 MB
It’s an exciting time to think about consciousness. This book is a collection of essays that represent the cornerstone of contemporary philosophical thinking on the subject.

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Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 100946227X | 88 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Is consciousness a purely physical phenomenon? Most contemporary philosophers and theorists hold that it is, and take this to be supported by modern science. But a significant minority endorse non-physicalist theories such as dualism, idealism and panpsychism, among other reasons because it may seem impossible to fully explain consciousness, or capture what it’s like to be in conscious states (such as seeing red, or being in pain), in physical terms. This Element will introduce the main non-physicalist theories of consciousness and explain the most important arguments for them, and consider how they each respond to the scientific and other arguments in support of physicalism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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