The book starts by analyzing the problem of how we can see so well despite what, to an
engineer, might seem like horrendous defects of our eyes. An explanation is provided by a …

The paper proposes a way of bridging the gapbetween physical processes in the brain and
the''felt''aspect of sensory experience. The approach is based onthe idea that experience is …

Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when
we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions …

For those of us blessed with sight, colours have been manifest in the scenes before our eyes
ever since such scenes first came into focus. Familiarity has not bred understanding …

In this paper I explore a brand of scepticism about perceptual experience that takes its start
from recent work in psychology and philosophy of mind on change blindness and related …

Other sculptors, other statues from the same stone! Other minds, other worlds from the same
monotonous and inexpressive chaos! My world is but one in a million alike embedded, alike …

The mind‐body problem exists because we naturally want to include the mental life of
conscious organisms in a comprehensive scientific understanding of the world. On the one …

Koch 1990) that outlined a sketch of such a theory. Our aim was not to produce as complete
a theory of consciousness as possible but to indicate promising lines of experimental work …

In Berkeley's language, the question from which this book arises is this one: Is what we
immediately perceive by the senses something that depends for its existence upon our …

The scientific study of perception is the study of the qualities of experience and the
conditions under which they occur. Although Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka (1935) set the …