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dc.contributor.authorCraffert, Pieter F.
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-27T15:44:50Z
dc.date.available2024-06-27T15:44:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifierONIX_20240627_9781779953131_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91132
dc.description.abstractConsciousness' is central to the quest for being human and for what the world is made of. While there is widespread agreement on the significance of consciousness for clarifying the human condition, there is no agreement on the phenomenon in search of theorising. Although there is no shortage of theories and concepts of consciousness in current consciousness research, the dominant critical analysis of consciousness research in this study, although based on existing analyses, is (as far as I can see) new and unique in arguing for a crisis in consciousness research. This book touches on most aspects of consciousness research (the hard problem of conscious-ness, neural correlates of consciousness, brain models and consciousness, consciousness and dualistic thinking, etc.) but is a critical analysis of consciousness research. It is not an insider but a third-person perspective on current consciousness research. In this regard, it is different from most introductions and overviews where these topics are presented from a first-person perspective (the insiders' claim about their research). Representing the broad spectrum of consciousness research in terms of the theoretical framework of a neuro-ecological perspective is a new and innovative move.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHTS Religion & Society Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind
dc.subject.otherConsciousness research
dc.subject.othercritical neuroscience of consciousness
dc.subject.othercrisis in consciousness research
dc.subject.otherneuro-ecological theory of consciousness
dc.subject.othermainstream neuroscience of consciousness
dc.subject.othernonlocal theories of consciousness
dc.subject.otherbrain models
dc.subject.otherneurocentrism
dc.subject.othercorticocentrism
dc.subject.otherhard problem of consciousness
dc.subject.otherneural correlates of consciousness
dc.subject.othermind-brain problem
dc.subject.otherconsciousness and being human
dc.titleThe fabric(ation) of consciousness
dc.title.alternativeA neuro-ecological perspective
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4102/aosis.2024.BK500
oapen.relation.isPublishedByd7387d49-5f5c-4cd8-8640-ed0a752627b7
oapen.relation.isbn9781779953131
oapen.imprintAOSIS Books
oapen.series.numberVolume 17
oapen.pages248
oapen.place.publicationCape Town


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