TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS II The Second Tucson Discussion and Debates.

HAMEROFF, Stuart R. et al (eds).

ISBN 10: 0262082624 / ISBN 13: 9780262082624

Published by MIT Press, Massachusetts, 1998., 1998

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8vo, 764pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Remainder mark.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS II The Second Tucson Discussion and Debates.
• Publisher: MIT Press, Massachusetts, 1998.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262082624
• ISBN 13: 9780262082624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

This book's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. The sections include philosophy, cognitive science, medicine, neurobiology, neural correlates, vision, sleep and dreaming, anesthesia, molecular biology and evolution, quantum theory,spacetime, hierarchical organization, and experiential approaches.

What is consciousness? Recent attempts to answer this question have motivated two interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first volume of Toward a Science of Consciousness is now considered a resource book for the emerging field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the second conference, held in April 1996. The book's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. The sections include philosophy, cognitive science, medicine, neurobiology, neural correlates, vision, sleep and dreaming, anesthesia, molecular biology and evolution, quantum theory, spacetime, hierarchial organization, and experiential approaches. Each section is preceded by an overview and commentary.

The participants include Bernard Baars, Ned Block, David J. Chalmers, Patricia S. Churchland, Daniel C. Dennett, Jeffrey Gray, Daniel Hillis, J. Allan Hobson, Stephen LaBerge, Jaron Lanier, Daniel S. Levine, Nikos K. Logothetis, Gary E. Schwartz, John R. Searle, Roger N. Shepard, Henry P. Stapp, Petra Stoerig, Charles T. Tart, John Taylor, Francisco J. Varela, Max Velmans, Roger Walsh, and Lawrence Weiskantz.

About the Author

Stuart R. Hameroff is Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Alfred W. Kaszniak is Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. Alwyn C. Scott is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and in the Department of Mathematical Modeling at the Technical University of Denmark.