Screen LibraryThe brain's representational power : on consciousness and the integration of modalities /
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 382 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-370) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262029315 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0262029316 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QP363 |
| CLC: | R338.2 |
| Call Number: | R338.2/P412 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Building representations with neurons and spikes -- Peeling off our conscious lives -- What neural network models can and cannot explain about cognition -- Networks and the problem of panpsychism -- Structure and function of brain systems for conscious and non-conscious representation -- Same brain, different states : waking, sleeping and anesthesia -- Requirements for conscious representations -- Neural mechanisms for conscious representations -- Levels of representational organization -- Philosophical and future perspectives. |