A place for consciousness : probing the deep structure of the natural world /

What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of informat...

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Probing the deep structure of the natural world
1. Verfasser:
Rosenberg, Gregg
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Zusammenfassung:
What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure and information processing leaves us guessing about the central questions concerning the character of its experience. A Place for Consciousness begins with reflections on the existence of this gap. Is it just a psychological shortcoming in our merely human unders
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1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages) : illustrations
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-029058-7
1-280-70436-5
0-19-534710-2
Schlagworte:
Consciousness.
Philosophy of nature.
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