Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy

by William Hirstein

Can consciousness and the human mind be understood and explained in sheerly physical terms? Materialism is a philosophical/scientific theory, according to which the mind is completely physical. This theory has been around for literally thousands of years, but it was always stymied by its inability to explain how exactly mere matter could do the amazing things the mind can do. Beginning in the 1980s, however, a revolution began quietly boiling away...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231907
• ISBN13: 9780199231904
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.7"