From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind
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From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind
Penguin, 1999
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1998
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Includes index
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These essays address issues emerging from the field of neuroscience, including: the possibility of artificial intelligence; the nature of schizophrenia; the problem of consciousness; the future of psychopharmacology; and the relationship between brain biochemistry and social behaviour.
Table of Contents
- Brains, minds and the world, Steven Rose
- the human brain - 100 billion connected cells, John Parnavelas
- the pharmacology of thought and emotion, Trevor Robbins
- memory and brain systems, Larry R. Squire
- the physiological basis of memory, Tim Bliss
- ageing of the brain - is mental decline inevitable?, A. David Smith
- why there will never be a convincing theory of schizophrenia, Richard bentall
- nuclear schizophrenia symptoms as the key to the evolution of modern homo sapiens, Tim J. Crow
- can a computer understand?, Roger Penrose
- a neurocomputational view of consciousness, Igor Aleksander
- flagging the present with qualia, Richard Gregory
- how might the brain generate consciousness?, Susan Greenfield
- consciousness from a neurobiological perpsective, Wolf Singer
- one world, but a big one, Mary Midgley.
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