Sentience : the invention of consciousness
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Sentience : the invention of consciousness
The MIT Press, c2023
- : [hbk]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index
Summary:"An accessible overview of Humphrey's evolving views on consciousness -- particularly the topic of phenomenal consciousness -- from his early neurophysiology studies in the 1960's to his debates with philosophers today"-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Sentience and consciousness
- Foothills
- The touch of light
- Blythe spirits
- What the frog's eye tells the monkey's brain
- Blindsight
- Sight unseen
- Red sky at night
- Nature's psychologists
- On the track of sensations
- Evolving sentience
- The road taken
- The phenomenal self
- Theoretical misprisions
- Coming to be: sentience and body sense
- Sentience all the way down?
- Mapping the landscape
- Getting warmer
- Testing, testing
- Qualiaphilia
- The self in action
- Taking stock
- Machina ex deo
- Ethical imperatives