What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware
mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual …

How do our personalities and mental processes, our" states of consciousness", derive from a
gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg? How can mere molecules …

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an
illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the'last great mystery of science' …

Page 1 the Character of COſlSCIOUS GSS david Chalmers Page 2 THE CHARACTER OF
CONSCIOUSNESS Page 3 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Series Editor: David J. Chalmers, Australian …

Abstract The Character of Mind provides a sweeping and accessible general introduction to
the philosophy of mind. Colin McGinn covers all of the main topics--the mind-body problem …

Consciousness,'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical
brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free …

In recent decades, each of them curiously referred to as “the decade of the brain,” the more
venerable issues in philosophy and psychology have been awkwardly absorbed into a …

How would we know if a machine had taken on this seemingly ineffable quality of conscious
awareness? Our strategy relies on the knowledge that only a conscious machine can …