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Perplexities of Consciousness

Perplexities of Consciousness

Schwitzgebel, Eric

Paperback

Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0262525224
ISBN13: 9780262525220
Publisher: Bradford Book
Published: Sep 13 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives.

Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s researchers found that most people reported dreaming in black and white. In the 1960s, when most movies were in color and more people had color television sets, the vast majority of reported dreams contained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams. It is that we simply don't know whether or not we dream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience.

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