Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 2005
Series: Book 2 of 2 - Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
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- Title
- Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness
- Author
- Libet
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067401846X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674018464
- Item weight
- 245 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.97 centimeters width by 20.96 centimeters height by 1.73 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings--and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance for our understanding of consciousness.
Most notably, Libet's experiments reveal a substantial delay--the "mind time" of the title--before any awareness affects how we view our mental activities. If all conscious awarenesses are preceded by unconscious processes, as Libet observes, we are forced to conclude that unconscious processes initiate our conscious experiences. Freely voluntary acts are found to be initiated unconsciously before an awareness of wanting to act--a discovery with profound ramifications for our understanding of free will.
How do the physical activities of billions of cerebral nerve cells give rise to an integrated conscious subjective awareness? How can the subjective mind affect or control voluntary actions? Libet considers these questions, as well as the implications of his discoveries for the nature of the soul, the identity of the person, and the relation of the non-physical subjective mind to the physical brain that produces it. Rendered in clear, accessible language, Libet's experiments and theories will allow interested amateurs and experts alike to share the experience of the extraordinary discoveries made in the practical study of consciousness.
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