Jun 9, 2023
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give
rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as
love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These
questions today are some of the most hotly debated issues among
scientists and philosophers. Now, in his book “The Conscious Mind”,
philosopher David Chalmers offers an analysis of this heated debate
as he unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects
the prevailing reductionist trend of science, while offering
provocative insights into the relationship between mind and
brain.
Taking us on a tour through the philosophical ramifications of
consciousness, Chalmers reveals how contemporary cognitive science
and neurobiology have failed to explain how and why mental events
emerge from physiological occurrences in the brain. He proposes
instead that conscious experience must be understood in an entirely
new light--as an irreducible entity that exists at a fundamental
level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts. And after
suggesting some intriguing possibilities about the structure and
laws of conscious experience, he details how his unique
reinterpretation of the mind could be the focus of a new
science.
Originally published in April of 2019.
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