What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked "What is a man?" and replied that a man is "a certain sort of material object". This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural.
This groundbreaking hypothesis is supported by recent empirical findings in both perception and neuroscience, and is herein tested against a series of objections of both conceptual and empirical nature: the traditional mind-brain identity arguments from illusion, hallucinations, dreams, and mental imagery. The theory is then compared with existing externalist approaches including disjunctivism, realism, embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind. Can experience and objects be one and the same?
| ISBN: | 9789027213624 |
| Publication date: | 19th October 2017 |
| Author: | Riccardo Manzotti |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 270 pages |
| Series: | Advances in Consciousness Research |
| Genres: |
Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality |
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked "What is a man?" and replied that a man is "a certain sort of material object". This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural.
This groundbreaking hypothesis is supported by recent empirical findings in both perception and neuroscience, and is herein tested against a series of objections of both conceptual and empirical nature: the traditional mind-brain identity arguments from illusion, hallucinations, dreams, and mental imagery. The theory is then compared with existing externalist approaches including disjunctivism, realism, embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind. Can experience and objects be one and the same?
Consciousness and Object features in the following genres: Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
Consciousness and Object is available in Hardback
Consciousness and Object was written by Riccardo Manzotti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Consciousness and Object has 270 pages
Yes it is part of Advances in Consciousness Research series