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The Concepts of Consciousness |
For the conference and the special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies that lie behind this book, pairs of researchers were asked to tackle from different standpoints concepts of consciousness such as realism, representation, intentionality, information, control, memory and self.
Contents
• Editorial Introduction• Consciousness and Realism
• Contextual Emergence from Physics to Cognitive Neuroscience
• What is Mental Representation?
• Representation and a Science of Consciousness
• Consciousness and Intentionality
• At the Roots of Consciousness
• What Needs to Emerge to Make You Conscious?
• The Survival Value of Informed Awareness
• Consciousness and Control
• The Role of Control in a Science of Consciousness
• Methods for Measuring Conscious and Automatic Memory
• Toward a Continuity of Consciousness
• The Emergence of Self
• Selves in Turmoil
The contributors are David Leech Anderson, Harald Atmanspacher , Timothy L. Hubbard, Andrew Bailey, John Barresi, Liliana Albertazzi, Cees van Leeuwen, Robert Shaw & Jeffrey Kinsella-Shaw, Bernhard Hommel, J. Scott Jordan & Marcello Ghin, Dawn M. McBride, Michael Spivey & Sarah Cargill, Natalie Sebanz, and Sabine Maasen.