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Phenomenal Consciousness: Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain

Phenomenal Consciousness: Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain

Platchias, Dimitris

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ISBN10: 0773538356
ISBN13: 9780773538351
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 ataxia, mirror recognition in other primates, split-brain cases, and visual extinction.

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