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Tables of Contents for Consciousness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A note to the reader
x
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
10
Part I: Introducing consciousness
11
64
As sweet by any other name? Consciousness, self-consciousness and conscience
13
24
Introduction
13
1
The history of `conscience' -- and her cousins
14
2
`What do you mean by . . .?'
16
16
Consciousness
16
5
Self-consciousness
21
9
Conscience
30
1
A note on awareness
31
1
Consciousness in other tongues
32
3
Consciousness in prospect
35
2
`The nerves in the brain, oh damn'em': a sketch of the human nervous system
37
38
Introduction
37
1
The simple nervous system
38
9
Cells
38
4
Neurons
42
2
Neuronal neighbours
44
1
Interconnections
45
2
Simplicity embodied
47
1
The complex nervous system
47
26
Neurons -- and their neighbours
48
19
Interconnections redrawn
67
6
Conclusion: the nerves in the brain
73
2
Part II: The capacity for consciousness
75
78
The springs of awareness: the structural basis of consciousness (i)
77
34
Introduction
77
1
The electricity of the brain
78
17
On the electroencephalogram of man
78
6
The EEG today
84
3
The patterning of conscious states
87
4
Cognitive potentials
91
4
Controlling consciousness
95
10
Epidemic stupor
95
2
A wonderful net
97
2
The chemistry of consciousness
99
3
The place where consciousness dwells
102
3
Why do we sleep?
105
4
Conclusion: the conditions for awareness
109
2
The brothers of death: pathologies of consciousness
111
42
Introduction
111
1
Faints, fits and funny turns
112
12
Faints
112
5
Fits
117
6
Funny turns
123
1
Opium, alcohol and other anaesthetics
124
8
Opium
124
2
Alcohol and other anaesthetics
126
4
Awareness under anaesthesia
130
2
Varieties of coma
132
3
Hysteria and trance
135
3
Did you have a good night?
138
6
Insomnia
138
2
Hypersomnia
140
2
Parasomnia
142
2
The measurement of awareness
144
5
Conclusion: anatomising consciousness
149
4
Part III: The contents of consciousness
153
88
From darkness into light: the structural basis of consciousness (ii)
155
42
Introduction
155
1
Light and the evolution of vision
156
7
Light
156
1
Light and life
157
1
Life and vision
158
5
The retina: sensitive pigment
163
5
Capturing quanta
163
3
Communicating contrast
166
2
Analysis and integration: the cortical visual areas
168
7
En route to the visual cortex
168
1
Area 17
169
3
Multiple maps
172
3
Seeing things
175
11
The wood from the trees
175
3
Binding
178
1
Constancy
179
2
Recognition
181
2
Imagination
183
1
The roving eye
184
2
Paying attention: did you see the gorilla?
186
4
The beholder's share
190
2
Invisible destinations
192
4
Conclusion: image and action
196
1
`I cannot see you Charley, I am blind': clear-sighted blindness and blindsight
197
44
Introduction
197
2
The famished eye
199
9
Molyneux's question
199
2
The ripening of vision
201
5
Novel sensations
206
2
Mindblindness: the agnosias
208
13
Apperceptive agnosia
209
4
Associative agnosia
213
8
Neglect
221
3
Blindsight and residual vision
224
6
The absence of all sensation
224
4
The sound of distant gunfire
228
1
Why is blindsight blind?
229
1
Hallucination: 'There's a seagull on your shoulder'
230
3
Exquisite correlations
233
3
Conjuring the rainbow
236
2
Conclusion: vision and consciousness
238
3
Part IV: The origins of consciousness
241
36
The history of everything
243
34
Introduction
243
1
First things
244
2
The birth of life
246
3
Begetting the brain
249
9
Continuity
250
4
Change
254
4
The tree of man
258
4
From biology to history
262
4
The coming of consciousness
266
7
The uses of awareness
266
4
The souls of animals
270
3
A Darwinian conclusion: evolving awareness
273
4
Part V: Consciousness considered
277
66
Scientific theories of consciousness
279
24
Introduction
279
1
The story so far: sight, memory and action
280
4
A methodological wrinkle: the necessity for report
284
3
The 'where' and 'how' of conscious vision
287
9
Where?
288
5
How?
293
3
What consciousness does: the ghost in the virtual machine
296
2
Getting to know you better: social theories of consciousness
298
2
Conclusion
300
3
The nature of consciousness
303
40
Introduction
303
1
Experience and the brain
303
22
Two sketches on a sunny day
303
2
A war of intuitions
305
2
What is it like to be ...
307
5
`-isms' enough for all
312
11
Night at the end of the tunnel?
323
2
Other minds
325
11
Human minds
325
2
Animal minds
327
1
Manufactured minds
328
6
Alien minds: a midsummer night's dream
334
2
Human freedom
336
5
The prospect of prediction
336
1
Solving for three bodies
337
1
Che sara sara? (what will be, will be?)
338
1
Free fall
338
3
Conclusion: the matter of the mind
341
2
Epilogue
343
5
Glossary
348
16
Notes
364
24
Suggestions for further reading
388
2
List of figures and tables
390
6
Index
396