Phenomenology and the physical reality of consciousness /

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Author / Creator:Melnick, Arthur.
Imprint:Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 262 pages)
Language:English
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 83
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 83.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101765
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ISBN:9789027284174
9027284172
9789027252203
9027252203
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that consciousness is a phenomenon that exists in and throughout the body. Apart from whether or not it involves intentionality and apart from whether or not it involves awareness of the self, consciousness is self-intimating, self-revealing, self-disclosing. Self-disclosure is the definitive phenomenolog.
Other form:Print version: Melnick, Arthur. Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2011 9789027252203