The mysterious flame : conscious minds in a material world / Colin McGinn.

By:

McGinn, Colin, 1950-

Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, c1999.Description: xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780465014231
0465014224

Subject(s):

Consciousness

LOC classification:

BF311 .M147 1999

Contents:

Consciousness - Still Unexplained After All These Years -- Natural Mysteries and Biased Minds -- God, the Soul, and Parallel Universes -- Mind Space -- Secrets of the Self -- Could a Robot Get the Blues? -- The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy.

Summary: "Arguing that we can never truly "know" consciousness - that the human intellect is simply not equipped to unravel this mystery - he demonstrates that accepting this limitation in fact opens up a whole new field of investigation. Indeed, he asserts, consciousness is the best place from which to begin to understand the internal make-up of human intelligence, to investigate our cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and to explore the possibility of machine minds."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-236) and index.

"Arguing that we can never truly "know" consciousness - that the human intellect is simply not equipped to unravel this mystery - he demonstrates that accepting this limitation in fact opens up a whole new field of investigation. Indeed, he asserts, consciousness is the best place from which to begin to understand the internal make-up of human intelligence, to investigate our cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and to explore the possibility of machine minds."--BOOK JACKET.