3 papers in the library · publishing 2018
CRC Press eBooks August 17, 2018 Derek Steinberg
The state of the study of consciousness at the beginning of the twenty-first century involves, appropriately, a degree of bafflement and controversy, particularly over the question of the core nature or even existence of something called Self. As recently as 1995 Sutherland, in compiling his International Dictionary of Psychology , was able to say that ‘Consciousness is a fascinating but...
CRC Press eBooks August 17, 2018 Derek Steinberg
Consciousness, that is, in the human sense, awareness not only of a range of stimuli, sensations and perceptions such as animals show, but a subjective sense of personal identity, of the self, at the centre of individual existence. Greenfield, who starts out from the perspective of primarily neurophysiology and biochemistry, describes consciousness as ‘the inside-the-skin sensation’, which is a...
CRC Press eBooks August 17, 2018 Derek Steinberg
Baruch Spinoza described Mind as one of the attributes of God, the only other attribute knowable to Man being ‘extension’, or things, including the material body. Most of the modern neuroscientific literature on consciousness is monist, i.e. it assumes that the mind and consciousness are, indeed can only be, products of the physical brain. John Searle, in his excellent review of the work of...