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Consciousness: A Natural History

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Thomas Nagel, in a review of John Searles (1992) book, The Rediscovery of the Mind, states that we do not really understand the claim that mental states are states of the brain. He follows this statement more finely with the remark that, We are still unable to form a conception of how consciousness arises in matter (Nagel, 1993, p. 40). The missing conception is, of course, really a missing answer:

Source: University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE)

Author: Maxine Sheets‐Johnstone

Institution: University of Oregon

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1911828807

FWCI: 58.74

Cites: 32

Cited by: 86

Related to: 10