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Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to the Specialists to Study?

Joseph S. King and Karl H. Pribram

This volume is the result of the third Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics which focused on the problem of scale in conscious experience. Set against the philosophical view of ""eliminative materialism,"" the purpose of this conference was to facilitate communication among investigators who approach the study of consciousness and conscious phenomena from a variety of analytical levels. One speculative outcome of the conference is that the columnar arrangement within primary sensory cortices may provide the local isolation necessary for nonlocal interactions to occur. In

GenresCognitive scienceCongressesConsciousness

458 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 1995 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates · ISBN 9780203763629

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4 editions

English

  • Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to the Specialists to Study? · Lawrence Erlbaum Associates · 1995 · ISBN 9780203763629 This page
  • Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to Specialists to Study? · Taylor & Francis Group · 2013 · ISBN 9781134996032
  • Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to the Specialists to Study? · Lawrence Erlbaum Associates · 1995 · ISBN 9781134995899
  • Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to the Specialists to Study? · Lawrence Erlbaum Associates · 1995 · ISBN 9781134995967

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