Conversations on Consciousness

Science News,  March 10, 2007  

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CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS SUSAN BLACKMORE

Consciousness. Where does it come from? Is it somehow separate from the human brain? Can the brain itself comprehend it? Inspired by a conference on consciousness in 2000, Blackmore, a lecturer in psychology at the University of the West of England, poses these and other intriguing questions to some of the top thinkers in philosophy and brain studies. In each interview, the author gets to the heart of the struggle to explain subjective experience in objective, scientific terms. Francis Crick. Daniel Dennett, John Searle. David Chalmers, and others describe the ideas behind their assertions about and study of consciousness, including free will, the separation of mind and body, artificial intelligence, and conscious versus unconscious experience. Oxford, 2006, 274 p., b&w illus., paperback, $15.95.

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