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Given that a representational system's phenomenal experience must be intrinsic to it and must therefore arise from its own temporal dynamics, consciousness is best understood - indeed, can only be understood - as being in time. Despite that, it is still acceptable for theories of consciousness to be summarily exempted from addressing the temporality of phenomenal experience. The chapters comprising this book represent a collective attempt on the part of their authors to redress this aberration. The diverse treatments of phenomenal consciousness range in their methodology from philosophy, through surveys and synthesis of behavioral and neuroscientific findings, to computational analysis. This collection's broad scope and integrative approach, characterized by the view of the brain as a dynamical system that computes the mind's representation space, will be of interest to researchers, instructors, and students in the cognitive sciences wishing to acquaint themselves with the current thinking in consciousness research. Series B.

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Author:   Shimon Edelman (Cornell University) ,  Tomer Fekete (Stony Brook University) ,  Neta Zach (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   88
Weight:   0.655kg
ISBN:  

9789027213549

ISBN 10:   9027213542
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   11 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Time after time: Temporality in the dynamic brain (by Lloyd, Dan); 3. Neuronal reflections and subjective awareness (by Malach, Rafael); 4. From probabilities to percepts: A subcortical global best estimate buffer as locus of phenomenal experience (by Merker, Bjorn); 5. Being in time (by Edelman, Shimon); 6. The (lack of) mental life of some machines (by Fekete, Tomer); 7. Restless minds, wandering brains (by Leeuwen, Cees van); 8. Fuzzy consciousness (by Huette, Stephanie); 9. Two dynamical themes in Husserl (by Yoshimi, Jeffrey); 10. Desiderata for a mereotopological theory of consciousness: First steps towards a formal model for the unity of consciousness (by Wiese, Wanja); 11. The brain and its states (by Brown, Richard); 12. An integrative pluralistic approach to phenomenal consciousness (by Dale, Rick); 13. Index

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