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Mindmelding - Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy (Hardcover, New)
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Mindmelding - Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy (Hardcover, New)
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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 in the
neurosciences, yielding increasingly detailed theories about how
the brain might accomplish consciousness. Nevertheless, a
fundamental obstacle remains. Contemporary research techniques seem
to still have the scientific observer of the conscious state locked
out of the sort of experience the subjects themselves are having.
Science can observe, stimulate, and record events in the brain, but
can it ever enter the most sacred citadel, the mind? Can it ever
observe the most crucial properties of conscious states, the ones
we are aware of? If it can't, this creates a problem. If conscious
mental states lack a basic feature possessed by all other known
physical states, i.e., the capability to be observed or experienced
by many people, this give us reason to believe that they are not
entirely physical. In this intriguing book, William Hirstein argues
that it is indeed possible for one person to directly experience
the conscious states of another, by way of what he calls
mindmelding. This would involve making just the right connections
in two peoples' brains, which he describes in detail. He then
follows up the many other consequences of the possibility that what
appeared to be a wall of privacy can actually be breached. Drawing
on a range of research from neuroscience and psychology, and
looking at executive functioning, mirror neuron work, as well as
perceptual phenomena such as blind-sight and filling-in, this book
presents a highly original new account of consciousness.
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