The Feeling of Embodiment: A Case Study in Explaining Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9783030141691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Glenn Carruthers

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Real Problem of Consciousness.- Chapter 2: The Feeling of Embodiment: Our Target of Explanation.- Chapter 3: Off-line and On-line body representations.- Chapter 4: Explaining the feeling of embodiment: The feeling of embodiment occurs when an on-line body representation is matched to an off-line prototype.- Chapter 5:  And then what happens?.- Chapter 6: Implications of the Real Problem of Consciousness for the sense of Embodiment: We need a hybrid account of consciousness.- Chapter 7: Completing the Hybrid Account: Awareness is a Functionally Emergent Kind.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

O autorze

Glenn Carruthers is a lecturer in psychology at Charles Sturt University, Australia and has published a multitude of theoretical and experimental papers about consciousness and self-consciousness. He is a cognitive scientist and theoretical psychologist with interests in consciousness, psychopathology and moral change.