Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
By Alva Noë.
Description
Alva Noë is one of a new breed―part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist―who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.Our culture is obsessed with the brain―how it perceives; how it remembers; how it determines our intelligence, our morality, our likes...
ISBN(s)
0809016486, 9780809016488
