ISBN: 9780907845188 - Emergence of Consciousness (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pink titles on blue illustrated trade paper covers, 166 pages. Contributors include Robert Van Gulick, Harry T. Hunt, Natika Newton, Michael Silberstein, Scott Hagan/Masayuki Hirafuji, Todd E. Feinberg and Alwyn Scott. Book is in very good condition except that the previous owne has tipped in his bookplate at the base of the title page with some inked notes underneath.…

Paperback. pp. ix, 166. Royal 8vo. Corners thumbed, spot to bottom edge, rubbing to covers; very good-.

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Paperback octavo, very good plus condition. 166 pp. How does the conscious mind relate to the physical body? Two common views from the past offered the stark choice between dualism in which mind and body were quite separate, and physicalism in which the mind was in fact nothing but the physical brain. Both these views are now widely rejected. Emergence theory offers a compromise: the mind emerges from the physical body but the whole person, mind and body, is more than the sum of the physical parts. Philosopher Robert Van Gulick gives a clear and masterly overview and comparison of the current emergent and reductive approaches. The editor's own chapter argues for the radical proposal that even God is an emergent property.…

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