Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide

Icon Books, 2010, softcover, pocket sized, illustrated, 175 pages, condition: new.

Introducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to explain consciousness. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat.

A Graphic Guide book tackling the difficult riddle of consciousness that has been puzzling philosophers and scientists for centuries.  How can technicolour phenomenology arise from soggy grey matter?. In other words, how can chemicophysical processes inside our brain (which is not very different from digestion inside our stomach) bring about the inner movie of our conscious mind? These two things seem to have very little in common indeed. This is what is traditionally called the mind-body problem the hard problem of consciousness). Philosophers have been hitting a brick wall with this debate down to present time neuroscientists.