Phenomenal Consciousness : Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The nature of the mind -- 2. Phenomenal consciousness: the hard problem -- 3. Phenomenal consciousness and the "sufficiency" claim -- 4. Experience and first-order representationalism -- 5. Experience and the explanatory gap -- 6. Experience and higher-order representationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it.