A UNIVERSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS How Matter Becomes Imigination by Edelman, Gerald M. & Giulio Tononi - 2000

NY: Basic Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0465013767; very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. No DJ. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 2000. 9-1/2" Tall, XIII + 274pp. Black boards, bright gold spine lettering. PHILOSOPHY. "In this book we develop ways to answer the following questions: How does consciiousness arise as a result of particular neural processes and of the interactiions among the brain, the body, and the world ? How do these neural processes account for key properties of conscious experience ? Each conscious state is unified and indivisible, yet at the same time, each person can choose among and immense number of different conscious states; How can we understand different subjective states - so-called qualia - in neural terms ? How can our understanding of consciousness help connect strictly scientific descriptions to the wider domain of human knowledge and experience ? " ... 39 b/w illustrations- mostly drawings, some figures, a few b/w photos. Notes. Bibliography. Index. .