Consciousness

Contents

Boxes ix

Prefaces xi

• Introduction Acknowledgements xv


• Section One The problem


• 1 What’s the problem?


• 2 What is it like to be . . .?


• 3 The grand illusion


• Section Two The brain


• 4 Neuroscience and the correlates of consciousness


• 5 The theatre of the mind


• 6 The unity of consciousness


• Section Three Body and world


• 7 Attention


• 8 Conscious and unconscious


• 9 Agency and free will


• Section Four Evolution


• 10 Evolution and animal minds


• 11 The function of consciousness


• 12 The evolution of machines


• Section Five Borderlands


• 13 Altered states of consciousness


• 14 Reality and imagination


• 15 Dreaming and beyond