Title: Enchanted Looms - conscious networks in brains and computers
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- Author: Rodney Cotterill
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Year: 1998
- ISBN: 0-521-62435-5
- Description: This is a more than terriffic book. I'm not going to try to sell it
to you here, you just have to read it.
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Title: Brilliant air, brilliant fire
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- Author: Gerald Edelman
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Year: 1992
- ISBN: 0-14017244-0
- Description: Surely not an easy book. It is one of those books that
I read a chapter from, think it over, and return to reading more after some time.
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- Editor: Thomas Metzinger
- Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ferdinand Schoeningh)
- Year: 1995
- ISBN: 0-907845-05-3
- Description: An article collection, with the emphasis on theory and philosophy.
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Title: Neural correlates of consciousness
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- Editor: Thomas Metzinger
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Year: 2000
- ISBN: 0-262-13370-9
- Description: Articles by several authors, including: Antti Revonsuo,
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, Antonio Damasio, Wolf Singer, Gerald
Edelman and Giulio Tononi. A lot more empirical material.
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Title: The feeling of what happens
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- Author: Antonio Damasio
- Publisher: Vintage
- Year: 1999
- ISBN: 0-09-928876-1
- Description: One of the better books that explains "the mind".
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Title: Consciousness and Cognition
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- Editors: Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, Antti Revonsuo
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Year: -
- ISSN: 1053-8100
- Description: Journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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Title: Oxford guide to the mind
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- Editor: Geoffrey Underwood
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 2001
- ISBN: 0-19-860083-6
- Description: A "popular science" book about the brain, the mind and consciousness.
It's actually a very good book, with plenty of scientific explanations.
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Title: Creating mind (How the mind works)
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- Author: John E. Dowling
- Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.
- Year: 1998
- ISBN: 0-39397446-4
- Description: A good introductory book on "everything" about the brain (consciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning,
language, and intelligence). And, of course, "how do those neurons actually work?"
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Title: How the mind works
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- Author: Steven Pinker
- Publisher: W.W. Norton and company
- Year: 1999
- ISBN: 0393318486
- Description: The chapter "The
Mind's Eye" explains the visual system, but I'd recommend Hubels "Eye, brain and vision" for an
explanation of the basics of the workings of the "mind's eye", but this book is,
of course, more on the mind in a broader perspective. It is an easy-to-read book on "the mind".
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Title: From brains to consciousness?
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- Author: Steven Rose (editor)
- Publisher: Penguin Science
- Year: 1999
- ISBN: 0-14-025965-1
- Description: A collection of articles written by neuroscientists, psychologists, pharmacologists and philosophers.
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Title: The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
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- Author: Julian Jaynes
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Year: 1976, 1990
- ISBN: 0-14-017491-5
- Description: A "controversial book" - Were the heroes of the Iliad and Old Testament
conscious of what they were doing, or were they guided by auditory hallucinations (the Voices of the Gods)?
Jaynes says that consciousness is a very recent phenomenon - it has developed 3000 years ago.
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Title: The radiance of being
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- Author: Allan Combs
- Publisher: Floris Books
- Year: 1995
- ISBN: 0-86315-215-5
- Description: Covers the topic of consciousness from different viewpoints; wisdom traditions from both
eastern and western culture, and pyschology.
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Title: Mind in Science
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- Author: Richard L. Gregory
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Year: 1993 (reprint)
- ISBN: 0-14-013742-4
- Description: Bit, or rather a good bit of philosophy but very
interesting if you have the time for this kind of (thick) book. Contains a few chapters on
vision and perception.
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