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Annotation What is consciousness? Recent attempts to answer this question have motivated twointerdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first volume ofToward a Science of Consciousness is now considered a resource book for the emerging field. Thisvolume presents a selection of invited papers from the second conference, held in April 1996. Thebook's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. Thesections 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 andcommentary. 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, JaronLanier, 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, RogerWalsh, and Lawrence Weiskantz. |
