Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds

by Murray Shanahan

To understand the mind and its place in Nature is one of the great intellectual challenges of our time, a challenge that is both scientific and philosophical. How does cognition influence an animal's behaviour? What are its neural underpinnings? How is the inner life of a human being
constituted? What are the neural underpinnings of the conscious condition?

Embodiment and the Inner Life approaches each of these questions from a scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226555
• ISBN13: 9780199226559
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"