Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a new and enlightening theory about the ...(展开全部)

杰拉尔德•埃德尔曼，1929年生，美国著名生物学家，1972年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获得者。美国神经科学研究所（Neurosciences Institute）主任，神经科学研究基金会（Neurosciences Research Foundation）主席，斯克里普斯研究所（Scripps research Institute）神经生物学部主任。

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be too difficult, or because the relevant evidence was thought to be poor. Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established consciou...(展开全部)

'A clear-eyed, open-minded analysis of the problems of consciousness, and a wide-ranging synthesis of a variety of approaches. For those who want to join the race to model consciousness, this is the starting line.' Daniel C. Dennett 'With this model, the author sweeps through dozens of phenomena that are well known to students of sensation, perception, learning abstraction, lan...(展开全部)

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves (whereas unconscious ones do not, at least not in the right way). The book develops this 'self-representational' approach to consciousness along several di...(展开全部)

This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily respon...(展开全部)

How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages. In this direct and non-technical discussion of consciousness, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman draws on a lifetime of...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhil...(展开全部)

 [美] 霍华德•加德纳（Howard Gardner） 当今最具影响力的发展心理学家和教育学家，多元智能理论创始人，被誉为“多元智能理论之父”，“推动美国教育改革的首席科学家”。 哈佛大学教育研究生院心理学教授和教育学教授，曾担任哈佛大学“零点项目”负责人，长期从事智能理论、创造能力、领导能力、艺术教育等研究。 被世界各国二十多所大学授予心理学、教育学荣誉博士学位。出版二十多部专著，被译为二十多种文字，在世界各地影响广泛并广受赞誉。

This article describes the so called Human Consciousness Project , a "master template" of the various stages, structures, and states of consciousness reflecting the "Perennial Philosophy" of mankind consisting of variations of the world's great wisdom traditions. (compare: "The game of Order"). To the possible corruption of this 'holarchy' the author suggests not getting rid of...(展开全部)