Sizing Up Consciousness: Towards an Objective Measure of the Capacity for Experience

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Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream. However, we become less and less confident when we are called to answer fundamental questions about the relationships between consciousness and the physical world. Why is the cerebral cortex associated with consciousness, but not the liver, the heart, the cerebellum or other neural structures? Why does consciousness...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198728441

ISBN13:9780198728443

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:212 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"

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Philosophy Psychology

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