A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
PART ONE: THE WORLD KNOT......Page 16
1. Consciousness: Philosophical Paradox or Scientific Object?......Page 18
2. The Special Problem of Consciousness......Page 25
3. Everyman’s Private Theater: Ongoing Unity, Endless Variety......Page 35
PART TWO: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BRAIN......Page 50
4. Building a Picture of the Brain......Page 52
5. Consciousness and Distributed Neural Activity......Page 66
6. Neural Activity Integrated and Differentiated......Page 77
PART THREE: MECHANISMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE DARWINIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 92
7. Selectionism......Page 94
8. Nonrepresentational Memory......Page 108
9. Perception into Memory: The Remembered Present......Page 117
PART FOUR: DEALING WITH PLETHORA: THE DYNAMIC CORE HYPOTHESIS......Page 126
10. Integration and Reentry......Page 128
11. Consciousness and Complexity......Page 140
12. Determining Where the Knot Is Tied: The Dynamic Core Hypothesis......Page 154
PART FIVE: UNTANGLING THE KNOT......Page 170
13. Qualia and Discrimination......Page 172
14. The Conscious and the Unconscious......Page 191
PART SIX: OBSERVER TIME......Page 206
15. Language and the Self......Page 208
16. Thinking......Page 215
17. Prisoners of Description......Page 222
Notes......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 268
Credits......Page 280
Index......Page 282