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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
What is Consciousness?
The Indefinability of Consciousness
What is it Like to be a Bat?
Experience and Scientific Description
How Does Consciousness Fit In?
The First Option: Dualist
The Second Option: Materialist
The Third Option: Mysterian
Hard and Easy Problems
The Explanatory Gap
Creature Consciousness
The Hard Problem is New
René Descartes’ Dualism
Matter in Motion
Mind Separate From Matter
The Pineal Gland
Berkeley’s World of Ideas
The Idealist Tradition
Idealism in Britain
The Scientific Reaction to Idealism
Behaviourist Psychology
The Skinner Box
The Ghost in the Machine
The Beetle in the Box
Psychological Functionalists
Structure Versus Physiology
The Mind as the Brain’s Software
Variable Realization
A Physical Basis for Mind
A Modern Dualist Revival
A Dualism of Properties
Descartes’ Argument from Possibility
A Zombie Duplicate
Leibniz’s Argument from Knowledge
The Modern Argument from Knowledge
A Dualist Science of Consciousness
Arguments Against Dualism
Causal Completeness
The Demise of Mental Forces
Newtonian Physics
Back to Descartes
Materialist Physiology
No Separate Mental Causes
What About Quantum Indeterminism?
Causal Impotence
Pre-established Harmony
Modern Epiphenomenalism
The Oddity of Epiphenomenalism
The Materialist Alternative
Materialism is not Elimination
The Example from Temperature
Functionalist Materialism
Making a Computer Conscious?
The Turing Test
The Chinese Room
Language and Consciousness
Functionalist Epiphobia
Mental States are “Wetware”
Human Chauvinism
Facing up to the Dualist Arguments
Zombies are Impossible
Mysteries of Consciousness
The Mysterian Position
A Mysterian Speculation
Special Concepts of Consciousness
Everybody Wants a Theory
Neural Oscillations
Neural Darwinism
Re-entrant Loops
Evolution and Consciousness
The Purpose of Consciousness
Quantum Collapses
How Quantum Physics Differs
Schrödinger’s Cat
Quantum Consciousness
Another Link to Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Collapses and Gödel’s Theorem
The Global Workspace Theory
CAS Information-Processing
Equal Rights for Extra-Terrestrials
Intentionality and Consciousness
Consciousness and Representation
Explaining Intentionality
Can We Crack Intentionality?
Non-Representational Consciousness
In Defence of Representation
Non-Conscious Representation
Panpsychist Representation
Behaviour without Consciousness
What versus Where
The Problem of Blindsight
HOT Theories
Criticism of HOT Theories
Self-Consciousness and Theory of Mind
The False-Belief Test
Conscious or Not?
Cultural Training
Sentience and Self-Consciousness
Future Scientific Prospects
PET and MRI
A Signature of Consciousness
The Fly and the Fly-Bottle
The Dualist Option
The Materialist Option
A Question of Moral Concern
Is There a Final Answer?
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
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