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'An excellent book.' Ted Honderich, leading British philosopher This compact book provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. This series of graphic guides covers every key thinker and topic in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and more. Written by experts and illustrated by leading graphic artists, there is no better way to acquaint yourself with the biggest and best ideas humanity has ever come up with.

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'An excellent book' Ted Honderich

An excellent book' * Ted Honderich *

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David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London. Howard Selina is an acclaimed graphic artist.

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