The Explicit Animal : A Defence of Human Consciousness

Name: The Explicit Animal
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9780312224189
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ISBN: 9780312224189

1999 ed.

by R. Tallis

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0312224184

ISBN-13 9780312224189

Edition 1999 ed.

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 1999

Print length 313 Pages

Product Classification: Philosophy of mind

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Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.

There has been an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the enigma of human consciousness among neuroscientists, psychologists, and professional philosophers. Much work is aimed at accommodating consciousness within the currently dominant physicalist world picture. This book is a comprehensive and sometimes impassioned attack to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes; to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain; and to empty or eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia. Raymond Tallis''s critique concludes with a long look at man--"the explicit animal"--that makes the irreducible mystery of human consciousness impossible to overlook or deny.

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