Dimensions of conscious experience / edited by Paavo Pylkkänen, Tere Vadén.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Conceptual Foundation -- -- A view from anywhere : prospects for an objective understanding of consciousness / Ronald L. Chrisley -- Consciousness and conceptual schema / Daniel D. Hutto -- Language structure and the structure of consciousness : can one find a "common denominator" between them? / Maxim I. Stamenov -- -- Biological Perspectives -- -- Consciousness, behavioural patterns and the direction of biological evolution : implications for the mind-brain problem / B.I.B. Lindahl -- Imaging consciousness : can cognitive neuroscience discover visual awareness in he brain? / Antti Revonsuo -- -- Quantum Implications -- -- Naturalizing the mind in a quantum framework / B.J. Hiley and Paavo Pylkkänen -- Postmodern implications of quantum brain dynamics / Gordon Globus and Elena Bezzubova -- -- Experiential Dimensions -- -- Where's the poetry? : consciousness as the flight of three blackbirds / John Briggs -- Consciousness, art and media : reflections on mediated experience / Susanne Ackers.

It is by now commonly agreed that the proper study of consciousness requires a multidisciplinary approach which focuses on the varieties and dimensions of conscious experience from different angles. This book, which is based on a workshop held at the University of Skövde, Sweden, provides a microcosm of the emerging discipline of consciousness studies and focuses on some important but neglected aspects of consciousness. The book brings together philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive and computer science, biology, physics, art and the new media. It contains cri.

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