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  The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness (Paperback) By (author) Professor Raymond Tallis

  

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  Short Description for The Explicit AnimalThere has been an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the enigma of human consciousness among neuroscientists, psychologists, and professional philosophers. Much work is aimed at accommodating consciousness within the currently dominant physicalist world picture. This book is a comprehensive and sometimes impassioned attack to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary ...
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  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Published: 01 October 1999
  • Format: Paperback 297 pages
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  • Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy Of Mind
  • ISBN 13: 9780312224189 ISBN 10: 0312224184

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• There has been an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the enigma of human consciousness among neuroscientists, psychologists, and professional philosophers. Much work is aimed at accommodating consciousness within the currently dominant physicalist world picture. This book is a comprehensive and sometimes impassioned attack to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes; to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain; and to empty or eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia. Raymond Tallis's critique concludes with a long look at man--"the explicit animal"--that makes the irreducible mystery of human consciousness impossible to overlook or deny.