Zusatztext a startling first book Informationen zum Autor David J. Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Klappentext Writing in an accessible yet thought-provoking style, philosopher David Chalmers takes readers on a far-reaching tour through the philosophical ramifications of consciousness, presenting thoughtful discussions on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence and the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Zusammenfassung The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Preliminaries 1: Two Concepts of Mind 2: Supervenience and Explanation II. The Irreducibility of Consciousness 3: Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained? 4: Naturalistic Dualism 5: The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment III. Toward a Theory of Consciousness 6: The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition 7: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia 8: Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation IV. Applications 9: Strong Artificial Intelligence 10: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Notes Bibliography

a startling first book

Autorentext
David J. Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Klappentext

Writing in an accessible yet thought-provoking style, philosopher David Chalmers takes readers on a far-reaching tour through the philosophical ramifications of consciousness, presenting thoughtful discussions on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence and the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Zusammenfassung
The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.

Inhalt

• I. Preliminaries

• 1: Two Concepts of Mind

• 2: Supervenience and Explanation

• II. The Irreducibility of Consciousness

• 3: Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained?

• 4: Naturalistic Dualism

• 5: The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment

• III. Toward a Theory of Consciousness

• 6: The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition

• 7: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia

• 8: Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation

• IV. Applications

• 9: Strong Artificial Intelligence

• 10: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Notes

• Bibliography