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Summary of Susan Blackmore's Consciousness
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Consciousness is the most difficult thing to understand. It is both the most obvious and the most difficult thing we can investigate. We seem to have to use consciousness to investigate itself, which is a slightly weird idea. #2 The mind–body problem is a modern problem that stems from the fact that our experiences seem to be two entirely different kinds of thing. On the one hand, there are our own experiences, which are ineffable and cannot be conveyed to others. On the other hand, there is a physical world out there that gives rise to these experiences. #3 The most famous dualist theory is Cartesian dualism, which states that the mind and brain are made of different substances. The mind is non-physical and non-extended, while the brain and the rest of the physical world are made of physical, or extended, substance. #4 The hard problem of consciousness is the difficulty of explaining how a physical brain, made of material substances only, can give rise to conscious experiences or ineffable qualia.
Philosophers on Consciousness
We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're no closer to an explanation of how this inner world of experiences comes about. No matter how detailed our description of the physical brain, perhaps we'll always be left with this same question: how and why does the brain produce consciousness? This book is a short, accessible and engaging guide to the mystery of consciousness. Featuring remastered interviews and original essays from the world's leading thinkers, Philosophers on Consciousness sheds new light on the most promising theories in philosophy and science. Beyond understanding the mind, this is a journey into personal identity, the origin of meaning, the nature of morality and the fundamental structure of reality. Contributors include: Miri Albahari, Susan Blackmore, David Chalmers, Patricia Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish, Philip Goff, Frank Jackson, Casey Logue, Gregory Miller, Michelle Montague, Massimo Pigliucci and Galen Strawson.
Seeing Myself
Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand their own mind and to find a spiritual path that is compatible with science As an impressionable young student, Susan Blackmore had an intense, dramatic and life-changing experience, seeming to leave her body and travel the world. With no rational explanation for her out-of-body experience (OBE) she turned to astral projection and the paranormal, but soon despaired of finding answers. Decades later, a Swiss neurosurgeon accidentally discovered the spot in the brain that can induce OBEs and everything changed; this crucial spot is part of the brain's self-system and when disturbed so is our experience of self. Blackmore leaped back into OBE r...
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
A lively introduction that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - written by the top name in the field, Susan Blackmore.
The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
"Could we be witnessing a return of belief in our generation? Brierley is convinced that in our time we are witnessing a growing wave of faith. It was a conversation with agnostic journalist Douglas Murray that led Brierley to investigate whether a change was on the horizon. Brierley was seeing a similar trend among the secular thinkers he had interviewed. Jordan Peterson, Tom Holland, Dave Rubin, and many others have found themselves surprised by the continuing resonance and relevance of Christianity, and they are joining in on conversations about faith."--Publisher's website.
Borderlands
The definitive exploration of the unknown and paranormal. BORDERLANDS contains hundreds of personal accounts of strange phenomena ranging from surviving mammoths in Siberia to intelligent clouds over New Zealand, from frozen frogs to plagues of murderous manhole covers. It also examines how and why these stories are reported and what they mean. The book sets out the scientific and psychological explanations for these phenomena, while remaining accessible to the casual reader. BORDERLANDS is the first complete critical survey of an extraordinary fast developing field.
Consciousness
Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is a topic that was banned from serious research for most of the last century, but is now an area of increasing popular interest, as well as a rapidly expanding area of study for students of psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. This ground-breaking textbook by best-selling author Susan Blackmore was the first of its kind to bring together all the major theories of consciousness studies, from those based on neuroscience to those based on quantum theory or Eastern philosophy. The book examines topics such as how subjective experiences...
Consciousness
Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Adventures of a Parapsychologist
"True skepticism has nothing to do with disbelief," says Susan Blackmore. "It is about taking people's claims seriously and trying to understand them." As a starry-eyed student, Blackmore was convinced of the reality of astral planes, telepathy, and life after death. She was determined to devote her life to parapsychology, but what she found wasn't what she had bargained for. None of her cleverly devised experiments revealed a hint of the psi she was seeking. In a determined effort to find it somehow, she tested young children in play groups, trained students in imagery and altered states of consciousness, and even put Tarot cards to the test. She visited haunted houses and was regressed to ...
The Life Work of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Its Impact on the Death Awareness Movement
Ontario-based clinical thanatologist Chaban traces Kubler-Ross' influence on the field and health science education over the past quarter century. She argues that her paradigms, which have dominated care of the dying in North America's health care system, may work in a general way to deal with most situations of loss, but may not be effective and specific enough to care for the dying or the bereaved or to provide occupational support for professional caregivers. Rather, she contends, thanatology must begin to distinguish itself within palliative or hospice care with specific clinical, educational, and research considerations. The treatise seems to have been a doctoral dissertation for the University of Wales. The text is double spaced. The computer-generated index is fairly useless. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
