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Seeing Red

A Study In Consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey
language: english
Publisher: Harvard University Press, October of 2008 ‧
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Humphries offers an explanation of why consciousness makes compelling evolutionary sense. From sensations that probably began in bodily expression to evolutionary advantages of a conscious self, he tracks the “hard problem” of consciousness to its source and its solution, one in which the very hardness of the problem may make all the difference.

Seeing Red

A Study In Consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674030541
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: October of 2008
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 171 x 10 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 160
Format: Book
Collection: Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Philosophy
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674030541

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Humphrey é um psicólogo teórico, sediado em Cambridge, que estuda a evolução da inteligência e da consciência. Os seus interesses são abrangentes. Foi o primeiro a demonstrar a existência de «visão cega» após danos cerebrais em macacos, fez pesquisa no Ruanda sobre gorilas da montanha com Dian Fossey, propôs a célebre teoria da «função social do intelecto» e investigou o passado evolutivo da religião, da arte, da cura, da consciência da morte e do suicídio. As suas distinções incluem o Prémio Memorial Martin Luther King, a Medalha Pufendorf e o Prémio Internacional Mente e Cérebro. Os seus livros mais recentes são Seeing Red e Soul Dust.

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